Individual, age and sex-specific information is contained in yellow-bellied marmot alarm calls

Authors: Blumstein, D. T.ORCID; Munos, O.

Year: 2005

Journal: Animal Behaviour, Vol. 69, pp. 353-361

Publisher: UNKNOWN

DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.10.001

Keywords: MARMOTS, RMBL, MARMOTA FLAVIVENTRIS, COMMUNICATION, VOCALIZATION, ALARM CALL

Abstract

This work focused on the individually distinctive calls of yellow-bellied marmots, Marmota flaviventris, to describe attributes of individuals encoded in calls, and found significant potential information about identity, age and sex encode in calls.

Individual, age and sex-specific information is contained in yellow-bellied marmot alarm calls

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