Bee threat elicits alarm call in African elephants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  King, Lucy E ^a   Soltis, Joseph ^b   Douglas Hamilton, Iain ^a,c   Savage, Anne ^b   Vollrath, Fritz ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DISNEY S ANIMAL KINGDOM   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ALERTNESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEE STING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEPHANT; HONEYBEE; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; THREAT; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANXIETY; BEE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND DETECTION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELEPHANTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 77956415311     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010346     Document Type: Article

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