Free-ranging male koalas use size-related variation in formant frequencies to assess rival males.
Although the use of formant frequencies in nonhuman animal vocal communication systems has received considerable recent interest, only a few studies have examined the importance of these acoustic cues to body size during intra-sexual competition between males. Here we used playback experiments to pr...
Main Authors: | Benjamin D Charlton, Desley A Whisson, David Reby |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3726542?pdf=render |
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