Similar acoustic structure and behavioural context of vocalizations produced by male and female California mice in the wild

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1263-1273

  Briggs, Jessica R ^a,b   Kalcounis Rueppell, Matina C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

California mouse; Microphone array; Multimodal communication; Noctural parental care; Peromyscus californicus; Telemetry; Territorial defence; Thermal video; Ultrasonic vocalization; Wild

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTY; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL CARE; REMOTE SENSING; RODENT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TERRITORY; VOCALIZATION; WILD POPULATION;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

MUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS CALIFORNICUS;

EID: 82355169017     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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