Vocal individuality in cohesion calls of giant otters, pteronura brasiliensis

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 88, Issue , 2014, Pages 243-252

  Mumm, Christina A S ^a   Urrutia, Maria C ^b   Knörnschild, Mirjam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contact call; Habituation dishabituation; Hum; Individual discrimination; Playback experiments; Vocal individual signature

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOR; CARNIVORE; GROUP BEHAVIOR; HUNTING; MOVEMENT; MUSTELID; RAINFOREST; SIGNALING; VOCALIZATION;

AMAZONIA;

PTERONURA BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 84908565445     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.12.005     Document Type: Article

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