Visualizing Sound Emission of Elephant Vocalizations: Evidence for Two Rumble Production Types

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Stoeger, Angela S ^a   Heilmann, Gunnar ^b   Zeppelzauer, Matthias ^c   Ganswindt, André ^d   Hensman, Sean ^e   Charlton, Benjamin D ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Gfai Tech GmbH   (Germany)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^e Adventures with Elephants ^*  (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELEPHANT; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; SOUND DETECTION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; ELEPHANTS; FEMALE; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANTIDAE; LOXODONTA;

EID: 84869105925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048907     Document Type: Article

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