• DOI:10.1038/430523A
Corpus ID: 4348026

Animal communication: Ground squirrel uses ultrasonic alarms

@article{Wilson2004AnimalCG,
  title={Animal communication: Ground squirrel uses ultrasonic alarms},
  author={D. Wilson and J. Hare},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2004},
  volume={430},
  pages={523-523}
}

D. Wilson, J. Hare

Published 2004

Biology, Medicine

Nature

Apart from echolocation and the pursuit of prey by bats, the function of ultrasound in animal communication is poorly understood. This is mainly because of the broad range of responses that it can evoke and the widely varied contexts in which it is used (for example, in rodents of the Muridae family it may indicate distress in infants or a sexual or predatory encounter in adults). Here we find that a purely ultrasonic signal is produced in the wild by a rodent of the Sciuridae family… CONTINUE READING

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