Short-term and long-term individuality in speckled ground squirrel alarm calls

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 158-166

  Matrosova, Vera A ^a   Volodin, Ilya A ^a,b   Volodina, Elena V ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Scientific Research Department   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Alarm call; Caller reliability; Speckled ground squirrel; Spermophilus suslicus; Temporal stability; Vocal communication

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION; RODENT; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS SUSLICUS;

EID: 61349184400     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/08-MAMM-A-032.1     Document Type: Article

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