We have the call, Con. What format and how long of a sample do you need?
Bernie Krause
Wild Sanctuary, Inc.
P. O. Box 536
Glen Ellen, California 95442-0536
Tel: (707) 996-6677
Fax: (707) 996-0280
http://www.wildsanctuary.com
> I am currently in the process of constructing a phylogeny of the
>alarm calls of the five species of prairie dogs in North America. My
>students and I have recorded the alarm calls given to a human by all the
>five species of prairie dogs, and now I would like to do a cladistic
>analysis of our data. For the cladistic analysis, I need an outgroup data
>point, an alarm call for a human from a non-prairie dog animal that is
>relatively closely related to prairie dogs. The outgroup serves as a
>reference point against which the prairie dog species can be compared in
>the cladistic analysis program that I am using.
> Other ground squirrels in the genus Spermophilus (this group
>includes the rock squirrel, the Columbian ground squirrel, the California
>ground squirrel, the thirteen-lined ground squirrel, the golden-mantled
>g.s., the Richardson's g.s., the Belding's g.s., among others) would be
>perfect as an outgroup. We need a call given for a human because we know
>that prairie dogs have different alarm calls to different predators such a=
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>humans, dogs, coyotes, and hawks, and it is possible that other ground
>squirrels might also have such fine-scaled distinctions in their calls.
> Does anyone have an alarm call from any of the ground squirrel
>species, that they know has been given in response to a human? And if you
>have such an alarm call, would you be willing to send me the call and have
>me use it in my cladistic analysis?
> Thanks!
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>Con Slobodchikoff
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>Dr. C. N. Slobodchikoff
>Professor of Biology
>Northern Arizona University
>Flagstaff, AZ 86011 USA
>Phone: 928-523-7231
>Fax: 928-523-7500
>Web Page: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~cns3
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
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