Acoustic features to arousal and identity in disturbance calls of tree shrews (Tupaia belangeri)

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 203, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 223-231

  Schehka, Simone ^a   Zimmermann, Elke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affect; Arousal; Communication; Individuality; Sex; Tree shrews; Tupaia belangeri; Vocalisation

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; IDENTITY; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHREW; SOUND DETECTION; STRESS; VOCALIZATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; FEMALE; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TUPAIA; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 67649660200     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.05.007     Document Type: Article

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