What is the sound of fear? Behavioral responses of white-crowned sparrows Zonotrichia leucophrys to synthesized nonlinear acoustic phenomena

Current Zoology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 534-541

  Blesdoe, Ellen K ^a   Blumstein, Daniel T ^a,b  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal; Entropy; Fear; Motivation structural rules; Nonlinear acoustic phenomena; White crowned sparrows

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905675438     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/60.4.534     Document Type: Article

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