Predator-associated vocalizations in north american red squirrels (tamiasciurus hudsonicus): To whom are alarm calls addressed and how do they function?

Ethology

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1190-1199

  Digweed, Shannon M ^a,b   Rendall, Drew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b MACEWAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; CALLING BEHAVIOR; LIFE HISTORY; PREDATOR; RODENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VOCALIZATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

MAMMALIA; SCIURIDAE; TAMIASCIURUS; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS;

EID: 70449572486     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2009.01709.x     Document Type: Article

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