Banded mongoose recruitment calls convey information about risk and not stimulus type

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 195-201

  Furrer, Roman D ^a   Manser, Marta B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

acoustic communication; banded mongoose; graded call system; Mungos mungo; recruitment; risk; urgency

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; FECES; MAMMAL; PREDATION RISK; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SNAKE; VOCALIZATION;

CARNIVORA; HERPESTIDAE; MUNGOS MUNGO; SERPENTES;

EID: 67349282004     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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