Do singing rock hyraxes exploit conspecific calls to gain attention?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Ilany, Amiyaal ^a   Barocas, Adi ^a,b   Koren, Lee ^a,c   Kam, Michael ^d   Geffen, Eli ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYRAX; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROCAVIA CAPENSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SINGING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOCALIZATION; ACCLIMATIZATION; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMMUNICATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HYRAXES; LEARNING; MALE; SEASONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 82755192474     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028612     Document Type: Article

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