Yellow-bellied marmots discriminate between the alarm calls of individuals and are more responsive to calls from juveniles

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1257-1265

  Blumstein, Daniel T ^a   Daniel, Janice C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; RODENT; VIGILANCE; VOCALIZATION;

MARMOTA; MARMOTA FLAVIVENTRIS; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 9944258055     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.12.024     Document Type: Article

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