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Paternal kin recognition in the high frequency / ultrasonic range in a solitary foraging mammal

Sharon E Kessler1,2*, Marina Scheumann2, Leanne T Nash1 and Elke Zimmermann2

1 School of Human Evolution & Social Change (SHESC), Arizona State University, Box 872402, Tempe, AZ, 85287-2402, USA

2 Institute of Zoology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Buenteweg 17, Hannover, 30559, Germany

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BMC Ecology 2012, 12:26 doi:10.1186/1472-6785-12-26

Published: 30 November 2012

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Additional file 1:

Quartiles of the acoustic parameters measured from the alarm calls and their loadings on the principal components. Frequency is measured in Herz and time in milliseconds.

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Quartiles of the behavioral responses to advertisement calls and their loadings on the principal components. Frequency is measured in Herz and time is in frames (resolution of 25 frames/s).

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Definitions and formulas of the acoustic parameters measured/calculated from the advertisement calls for the patriline signature analysis. Provides more information on how the advertisement calls were measured.

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Definitions and formulas of the acoustic parameters measured/calculated from the alarm calls for the patriline signature analysis. Provides more information on how the alarm calls were measured.

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Housing histories of the female-father and female-control male dyads. This table provides the details on how familiar the females were with their fathers and with their control males before the playback experiments.

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Ethogram for video analysis. This table defines the behavioral variables measured in the video analyses.

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