Making the most of alarm signals: The adaptive value of individual discrimination in an alarm context

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 93-100

  Pollard, Kimberly A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alarm call; Alarm signal; Individual discrimination; Individual recognition; Individuality; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; INDIVIDUALISM; LIFE HISTORY; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79952359676     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arq179     Document Type: Article

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