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- Title
Low frequency groans indicate larger and more dominant fallow deer (Dama dama) males.
- Authors
Vannoni, Elisabetta; McElligott, Alan G
- Abstract
Models of honest advertisement predict that sexually selected calls should signal male quality. In most vertebrates, high quality males have larger body sizes that determine higher social status and in turn higher reproductive success. Previous research has emphasised the importance of vocal tract resonances or formant frequencies of calls as cues to body size in mammals. However, the role of the acoustic features of vocalisations as cues to other quality-related phenotypic characteristics of callers has rarely been investigated.
- Publication
PloS one, 2008, Vol 3, Issue 9, pe3113
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0003113