Image: Vocalization types of mongooses (meerkat and banded mongoose)
Description: Schematic of vocalization types in members of the mongoose family. (a) Meerkats Suricata suricatta produce functionally referential alarm calls that signal both predator location (terrestrial versus aerial) and urgency. (b) Banded mongooses (Mungos mungo) produce close calls that sequentially encode both individual identity (a 'vocal signature') and current activity. This provides the first known example in animals of phonological syntax within a single referential signal. (Figure by Nadja Kavcik.)
Title: Vocalization types of mongooses (meerkat and banded mongoose)
Credit: Fitch, W. Tecumseh (2012). "Segmental structure in banded mongoose calls". BMC Biology 10 (1). DOI:10.1186/1741-7007-10-98.
Author: Nadja Kavcik
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
License: CC BY 4.0
License Link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Attribution Required?: Yes
Image usage
The following page links to this image:
.jpg){kind=link}