Response specificity to advertisement vocalization in the chinese alligator (alligator sinensis)

Ethology

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 832-839

  Wang, Xianyan ^a,b   Wang, Ding ^a   Wu, Xiaobing ^c   Wang, Chaolin ^d   Wang, Renping ^d   Xia, Tongsheng ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c ANHUI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Anhui Research Center for Chinese Alligator Reproduction   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONSPECIFIC; CROCODILIAN; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; MATE RECOGNITION; NATURAL SELECTION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SIGNALING; SYMPATRY; TOLERANCE; VOCALIZATION;

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR SINENSIS;

EID: 68949090466     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2009.01671.x     Document Type: Article

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