Effect of combined source (F0) and filter (formant) variation on red deer hind responses to male roars

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2936-2943

  Charlton, Benjamin D ^a   Reby, David ^a   McComb, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ACOUSTIC COMPONENTS; ACOUSTIC FEATURES; INTERSEXUAL SELECTION;

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE FILTERS;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LARYNX; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED DEER; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BODY SIZE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DEER; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; SCOTLAND; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 43549104496     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2896758     Document Type: Article

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