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vocal individuality — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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vocal individuality

Scope: population ecology

Papers: 12 | Mentions: 12

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 71 entities)

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Knowledge graph centered on vocal individuality with 71 nodes and 225 connections. Top connected: Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Marmota, Yellow-bellied Marmot, Colorado East River Valley.

Definition

The characteristics that determine the differences from one individual in species from another individual of the same species using acoustic signals

Related Terms (12)

individual signaturesindividual signaturesignature informationcaller identityindividual discriminationindividual-specific informationcaller discriminationproduction specificitysituationally specific callsindividuality

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individual identitycaller recognition

Publications (12)

Society formation and maintenance in yellow-bellied marmots

2025Animal Behaviour

Breeding bird density does not drive vocal individuality

2012Current Zoology

Evolving communicative complexity: insights from rodents and beyond

2012Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

The potential to encode sex, age, and individual identity in the alarm calls of three species of Marmotinae

2011Naturwissenschaften

Social group size predicts the evolution of individuality

2011Current Biology

Can breeding bird density influence vocal individuality in bird song?

Does breeding bird density drive vocal individuality?

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

2005Animal Behaviour

Yellow-bellied marmots discriminate between the alarm calls of individuals and are more responsive to calls from juveniles

Related Concepts (10)

alarm calling

phenomenon8 shared papers

Beecher information statistic

metric4 shared papers

playback experiments

methodology3 shared papers

nest density

metric3 shared papers

discriminant function analysis

measurement3 shared papers

phylogenetic comparative method

framework2 shared papers

Predation

phenomenon2 shared papers

habitat acoustics

process2 shared papers

social structure

measurement2 shared papers

acoustic structure analysis

measurement2 shared papers

Frequently Associated Species

Marmota

Sciuridae11 papers

Yellow-bellied Marmot

Sciuridae11 papers

Spermophilus

Sciuridae10 papers

Callospermophilus lateralis

Sciuridae10 papers

Urocitellus richardsonii

Sciuridae9 papers

Belding's ground squirrel

Sciuridae8 papers

Otospermophilus beecheyi

Sciuridae8 papers

Urocitellus beldingi

Sciuridae8 papers

Cynomys

Sciuridae7 papers

Cercopithecus petaurista

Cercopithecidae7 papers

2004Animal Behaviour

Reliability and the adaptive utility of discrimination among alarm callers

2004Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B

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Alarm calling in yellow-bellied marmots: I. The meaning of situationally variable alarm calls

1997Animal Behaviour

Female choice in true bugs (Homoptera: Miridae)