Disentangling canid howls across multiple species and subspecies: Structure in a complex communication channel

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 124, Issue , 2016, Pages 149-157

  Kershenbaum, Arik ^a   Root Gutteridge, Holly ^b   Habib, Bilal ^c   Koler Matznick, Janice ^d   Mitchell, Brian ^e   Palacios, Vicente ^f   Waller, Sara ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA   (India)

^d The New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^g MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioacoustics; Coyote; Dog; Howling; Jackal; Social communication; Wolf

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CANID; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; PREDATOR; REINTRODUCTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SUBSPECIES;

CANIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COYOTE; DATA BASE; MODULATION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SPECIES; SPECIES COMPARISON; SUBSPECIES; WOLF; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LATRANS; CANIS RUFUS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CANIDAE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COYOTES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WOLVES;

EID: 84956616714     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2016.01.006     Document Type: Article

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