Vocalizations of wild Asian elephants (Elephas maximus): Structural classification and social context

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2768-2778

  Nair, Smita ^a   Balakrishnan, Rohini ^a   Seelamantula, Chandra Sekhar ^a   Sukumar, R ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALL TYPES; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHORT DISTANCE COMMUNICATIONS; SOCIAL CONTEXT; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; STRUCTURAL CLASSIFICATION; STRUCTURAL DIVERSITY; TEMPORAL FEATURES; VOCAL REPERTOIRE;

FREQUENCY MODULATION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELEPHANT; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELEPHANTS; FEMALE; INDIA; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TREES; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 70449367249     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3224717     Document Type: Article

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