What the hyena's laugh tells: Sex, age, dominance and individual signature in the giggling call of Crocuta crocuta

BMC Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mathevon, Nicolas ^a,b   Koralek, Aaron ^c   Weldele, Mary ^c   Glickman, Stephen E ^c   Theunissen, Frédéric E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROCUTA CROCUTA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOUND DETECTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FEMALE; HYAENIDAE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 77950418322     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-10-9     Document Type: Article

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