Multimodal signaling in the Small Torrent Frog (Micrixalus saxicola) in a complex acoustic environment

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1449-1456

  Preininger, Doris ^a   Boeckle, Markus ^a   Freudmann, Anita ^a   Starnberger, Iris ^a   Sztatecsny, Marc ^a   Hödl, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acoustic signal; Anura; Background noise; Multimodal communication; Visual cue; Vocal sac

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; COURTSHIP; FROG; HABITAT; NOISE; SIGNAL; SIGNALING; VISUAL CUE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; MICRIXALUS; SAXICOLA;

EID: 84883790918     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-013-1489-6     Document Type: Article

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