Rodent Societies: An Ecological & Evolutionary Perspective

tive habitat — an essential prediction of the acoustic adap- tation hypothesis. I found no support for the hypothesis that overa ...

mates (e.g., Cheney and Seyfarth 1990; Zuberbühler 2000), and in a social mongoose (Manser 2001; Manser et al. 2001). Predator-s ...

are followed by disappearing into their burrows. Fourth, individuals can use different calls, as seen in yellow-bellied marmots ...

Summary Alarm calls are signals elicited by predators that may be di- rected to predators, most likely to discourage attack, or ...

G ood night,sleep well.” After a good-night kiss, the parent leaves the child’s room and turns off the lights. Immediately bogey ...

tions such as territoriality, interference competition, and group vigilance. We discuss the implications of the cost of predatio ...

Fear and Foraging In deserts, it appears that most, if not all, small rodents end their days at the hands, claws, jaws, or talon ...

vole population’s temporal distribution of activity. A uni- form level of activity across time may thwart the predators by precl ...

oughly and hence leave more food behind (the giving-up density, or GUD) in risky food patches than safe food patches (Brown 1988 ...

their foraging behavior. In a study on voles exposed to three nights of predators, the voles shifted from their normally polypha ...

means for suppressing the accumulation of scent signs for searching predators, lemmings (Dicrostonyx groenlandicus) defecate in ...

tively large populations of prey and predators and to display the oscillatory dynamics of classical predator-prey models. Fear-d ...

Kotler et al. 1992, 2001). In boreal voles, large-scale field or aviary studies with multiple predator species have been lacking ...

pothesis applies to m-driven rather than the N-driven sys- tem of voles. Predation Risk Affecting Social Interactions Rodents ex ...

In accord with the hypothesis that these nocturnal prey are communicating directly with the predator, larger (and presumably les ...

due to the presence of migratory and wintering raptors. The winter brings a reprieve for the kangaroo rats as the rattle- snakes ...

predators, and these behaviors feed back on the predators. Rodents have provided and will continue to provide a cru- cible for f ...

bers; and population dynamics in seasonal environments. Desert, temperate, and boreal regions probably offer ro- dents quite dif ...

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Comparative Socioecology ...