Pups crying bass: Vocal adaptation for avoidance of age-dependent predation risk in ground squirrels?

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 181-191

  Matrosova, Vera A ^a   Volodin, Ilya A ^a,b   Volodina, Elena V ^b   Babitsky, Andrey F ^c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Scientific Research Department   (Russian Federation)

^c SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Alarm call; Antipredator behaviour; Infanticide; Spermophilus fulvus; Spermophilus suslicus; Vocal mimicry

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALARM SIGNAL; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BODY SIZE; INFANTICIDE; MIMICRY; PREDATION RISK; RODENT; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; SPERMOPHILUS FULVUS; SPERMOPHILUS SUSLICUS;

EID: 36148951050     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-007-0452-9     Document Type: Article

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