All clear? Meerkats attend to contextual information in close calls to coordinate vigilance

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1927-1934

  Townsend, Simon W ^a,c   Zöttl, Markus ^b,c   Manser, Marta B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Kalahari Meerkat Project   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Acoustic information; Close calls; Meerkats; Playbacks; Vigilance coordination

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GROUP SIZE; PREDATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGNALING; SMALL MAMMAL; VIGILANCE; VULNERABILITY;

ANIMALIA; SURICATA SURICATTA;

EID: 80052765360     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-011-1202-6     Document Type: Article

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