Information transmission in bank voles by odor and acoustic signals (signalling communication)
2000
Osipova, O.V. | Rutkovskaya, M.V. (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Russia). Severtsov Inst. of Ecology and Evolution)
The informative significance of odor and acoustic signals in bank vole are reviewed. Chemical communication was found to be the main source of information about conspecifics. Bank vole are able to identify sex, age, and physiological state of the partners and to individually recognize them and themselves by means of excretion odor. Acoustic communication probably only reflects the emotional state of the vole without information transmitting
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