Determinants of the acoustic behaviour of red deer during breeding in a wild alpine population, and implications for species survey

摘要: A necessary step in the application of animal communication studies to population ecology involves quantitative descriptions acoustic variation within individuals. Stereotypy is fact fundamental allow individual recognition based on call structure and, turn, establish number different calling individuals a (complementing censuses), or track through years by characteristics their signals monitoring). Here we centred behaviour red deer stags during reproduction analyze its ecological determinants and test whether calls are specific. Scanty information available how day time weather may affect activity, spectrotemporal analyses could permit discriminate among We roars, loud repeated given throughout rut, mountainous forest habitat, over two rutting seasons. Significant inter-annua...