Context-related acoustic variation in male fallow deer (Dama dama) groans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Charlton, Benjamin D ^a   Reby, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY ORIENTATION; BODY SIZE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAMA DAMA; DEER; FALLOW; FEMALE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOUND INTENSITY; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY;

DAMA DAMA; MAMMALIA;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BREEDING; DEER; FEMALE; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 79958718705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021066     Document Type: Article

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