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

By Daniel T. Blumstein, Janice C. Daniel. 2004

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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The Sound of Arousal: The Addition of Novel Non-linearities Increases Responsiveness in Marmot Alarm Calls (2009, background): “The change in time allocated to foraging is an appropriate metric of responsiveness in yellow-bellied marmots (e.g., Blumstein & Daniel 2004; Blumstein et al. 2004, 2008) because individual marmots often allocate their time to a variety of other antipredator behaviors (vigilance, escape, hiding)…”
Individual, age and sex-specific information is contained in yellow-bellied marmot alarm calls (2005, background): “More generally, the results of this and other playback studies (Blumstein & Daniel 2004; Blumstein et al. 2004) demonstrate that even when there is not strong selection on signallers to be individually distinctive, receivers may benefit frommaking such discriminations nevertheless.”
Numerical assessment and individual call discrimination by wild spotted hyaenas, Crocuta crocuta (2011, unknown): “Individual variation in the acoustic structure of vocalizations and the ability to discriminate individuals based on acoustic signals appear to be widespread among mammals (Cheney & Seyfarth 1988; Cheney et al. 1995; Blumstein & Daniel 2004; Wich & de Vries 2006).”
The irrelevance of individual discrimination in meerkat alarm calls (2007, methodology): “To test whether meerkats discriminate between individuals based on their alarm call vocalizations, we performed a habituationedishabituation playback (Cheney & Seyfarth 1988; Johnston & Jernigan 1994; Gheusi et al. 1997; Hauser 1998; Weiss et al. 2001; Blumstein & Daniel 2004 ).”
Chapter 8 Survivor Signals (2009, background): “Inyellow-belliedmarmots (Marmota flaviventris), alarm calls of juveniles elicit greater vigilance than calls from adult females, suggesting that receivers perceive juveniles as especially vulnerable (Blumstein and Daniel, 2004).”
The development of alarm-call behaviour in mammals and birds (2009, background): “…call usage), receivers might choose to respond less strongly to them (e.g. Hanson & Coss 2001b) or, alternatively, they might increase their vigilance more in response to juvenile alarm calling (e.g. Blumstein & Daniel 2004) to obtain a suitably accurate assessment of the current predation risk.”
The Evolution, Function, and Meaning of Marmot Alarm Communication (2007, background): “Second, as I will discuss later, receivers can discriminate among individuals (Blumstein and Daniel, 2004).”
Individual specific contact calls of pallid bats (Antrozous pallidus) attract conspecifics at roosting sites (2011, unknown): “In addition, the information capacity of alarm calls in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris) was calculated as 3.37 bits (Blumstein and Munos 2005 ), the latter of which has been shown to discriminate between calls of different individuals ( Blumstein and Daniel 2004 ) even though the estim”