Alarm calls of the european ground squirrel spermophilus citellus and the taurus ground squirrel s. taurensis encode information about caller identity

Bioacoustics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-43

  Schneiderová, Irena ^a   Policht, Richard ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Alarm calls; Ground squirrels; Individual variability; Spermophilus citellus; Spermophilus taurensis

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; BIOACOUSTICS; RODENT; STATISTICAL APPLICATION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; SPERMOPHILUS CITELLUS;

EID: 77955518195     PISSN: 09524622     EISSN: 21650586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09524622.2011.9753631     Document Type: Article

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