Sign and strength of emotional arousal: Vocal correlates of positive and negative attitudes to humans in silver foxes (Vulpes vulpes)

Behaviour

Volumn 147, Issue 13-14, 2010, Pages 1713-1736

  Gogoleva, Svetlana S ^a   Volodin, Ilya A ^a,b   Volodina, Elena V ^b   Kharlamova, Anastasia V ^c   Trut, Lyudmila N ^c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Scientific Research Department   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

acoustic communication; Canidae; emotional arousal; human approach test; vocalization

Indexed keywords

CANIDAE; MAMMALIA; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 78649542406     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000579510X528242     Document Type: Article

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