Structure of rat ultrasonic vocalizations and its relevance to behavior

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Takahashi, Nobuaki ^a,b,c   Kashino, Makio ^a,b   Hironaka, Naoyuki ^a,b  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; FIGHTING; GALLOPING; GROOMING; JUMPING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REARING; STANDING; TROTTING; ULTRASONIC VOCALIZATION; VOCALIZATION; WALKING; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ULTRASOUND;

RATTUS;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ULTRASONICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 78649729018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014115     Document Type: Article

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