Age Differences in the Response of California Ground Squirrels (<i>Spermophilus beecheyi</i>) to Conspecific Alarm Calls

Mark T. Hanson, Richard G. Coss

doi:10.1046/j.1439-0310.2001.00659.x

Age Differences in the Response of California Ground Squirrels (<i>Spermophilus beecheyi</i>) to Conspecific Alarm Calls

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公開日: 2001-03-02

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10.1046/j.1439-0310.2001.00659.x

公開者: Wiley

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<jats:p>Juvenile California ground squirrel responses to adult alarm calls and juvenile alarm calling may be modified during development to achieve adult form. Adult conspecific chatter and whistle alarm calls were played back to juvenile and adult ground squirrels at an agricultural field site. In response to chatter playbacks, adults spent more time visually orienting to the environment and less time out of view and in covered habitats than juveniles; the converse was true in response to whistle playbacks. To test the evocativeness of juvenile calling, a subset of adult subjects received juvenile chatter and whistle playbacks. Adults spent less time out of view to juvenile call types than to adult calls, and showed more similar responses to juvenile chatters and whistles than to adult chatters and whistles. Age differences in the ground squirrel’s alarm call system may reflect adjustments to changing risks during development.</jats:p>