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SUBMITTER: Mates EA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4237024 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mates Exu Anton EA Tarter Robin R RR Ha James C JC Clark Anne B AB McGowan Kevin J KJ
Bioacoustics 20150101 1
Previous research on inter-individual variation in the calls of corvids has largely been restricted to single call types, such as alarm or contact calls, and has rarely considered the effects of age on call structure. This study explores structural variation in a contextually diverse set of "caw" calls of the American crow (<i>Corvus brachyrhynchos</i>), including alarm, foraging recruitment and territorial calls, and searches for structural features that may be associated with behavioural conte ...[more]