Sounds scary? Lack of habituation following the presentation of novel sounds.

BACKGROUND: Animals typically show less habituation to biologically meaningful sounds than to novel signals. We might therefore expect that acoustic deterrents should be based on natural sounds. METHODOLOGY: We investigated responses by western grey kangaroos (Macropus fulignosus) towards playback o...

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Main Authors: Tine A Biedenweg, Michael H Parsons, Patricia A Fleming, Daniel T Blumstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3022648?pdf=render