Flexible alarm calling in meerkats: The role of the social environment and predation urgency

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1360-1364

  Townsend, Simon W ^a,c   Rasmussen, Maria ^a,c   Clutton Brock, Tim ^b,c,d   Manser, Marta B ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Kalahari Meerkat Project   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

alarm calls; audience effects; meerkats; predation urgency; social environment

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; CONSPECIFIC; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PREDATION; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SMALL MAMMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION; WILD POPULATION;

EID: 84867794607     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ars129     Document Type: Article

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