The song remains the same: Juvenile Richardson's ground squirrels do not respond differentially to mother's or colony member's alarm calls
Alarm calls are emitted by Richardson's ground squirrels Urocitellus richardsonii in response to avian and terrestrial predators. Conspecifics detecting these calls respond with increased vigilance, promoting predator detection and evasion, but in doing so, lose time from foraging. That loss ca...
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Oxford University Press
2012-10-01
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| Series: | Current Zoology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.currentzoology.org/paperdetail.asp?id=12123 |