Acoustics of White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
Richardson LW, Jacobson HA, Muncy RJ, Perkins CJ. 1983. Acoustics of White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus). Journal of Mammalogy. 64(2):245-252
Eight steriotypic sounds of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and distinguished: 1) bleat 2) distress call) 3) nursing wine, 4) grunt, 5)alert-snort, 6) footstomp, 7) snort-weeze, and 8)aggressive snort. Only the grunt was associated with both dominant-subordinate and cohesive behavior. The grunt, alert-snort, footstomp, snort-weeze, and aggressive snort originated from yearlings and older deer. The nursing wine was heard only from fawns, and the bleat was emitted only by fawns and juveniles. The distress call was made by both sexes of juveniles and adults. Twelve voice parameters, expressing unique phonetic qualities of distress calls from 10 neonatal fawns, allowed discrimination of individual fawns, sibling pairs, and between sex and weight.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Richardson, Larry; Jacobson, Harry; Muncy, Robert; Perkins, Carroll
- Units
- ARD
- Keywords
- Acoustics, Bioacoustics, Mammals, Odocoileus Virginianus, SOUNDBIB, vocals, White-Tailed Deer