Rapid onset of maternal vocal recognition in a colonially breeding mammal, the australian sea lion

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Pitcher, Benjamin J ^a,b,c   Harcourt, Robert G ^a   Charrier, Isabelle ^b,c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COLONIAL SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL VOCAL RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; PUERPERIUM; RECOGNITION; SEAL; SOUND; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; BREEDING; FEMALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TIME;

MAMMALIA; NEOPHOCA CINEREA; PINNIPEDIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; FEMALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEA LIONS; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 77957872546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012195     Document Type: Article

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