Estimating the Active Space of Male Koala Bellows: Propagation of Cues to Size and Identity in a Eucalyptus Forest

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Charlton, Benjamin D ^a,b   Reby, David ^b   Ellis, William A H ^c   Brumm, Jacqui ^d   Fitch, W Tecumseh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BODY SIZE; CLASSIFICATION; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EUCALYPTUS; FOREST; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GENDER IDENTITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KOALA; LINEAR PREDICTIVE CODING; MALE; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; EUCALYPTUS; MALE; PHASCOLARCTIDAE; TREES; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EUCALYPTUS; PHASCOLARCTIDAE;

EID: 84866710641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045420     Document Type: Article

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