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ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2025

Nonlinear phenomena in marmot alarm calls: a mechanism encoding fear?

Daniel T Blumstein

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Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Rough is salient: a conserved vocal niche to hijack the brain's salience system.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
    Review
  4. Nonlinear phenomena in vertebrate vocalizations: mechanisms and communicative functions.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
    Article
  5. Review
  6. Vocal communication and perception of pain in childbirth vocalizations.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Daniel T BlumsteinDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5793-9244

Funding

National Science Foundation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

I review a case study of marmots that contributed to the empirical basis of the nonlinearity and fear hypothesis, which explains why certain nonlinear acoustic phenomena (NLP) are produced in extremely high-risk situations and communicate high urgency. In response to detecting predatory threats, yellow-bellied marmots (

Indexed as

FearMarmotaVocalization, AnimalAnimalsNonlinear Dynamicsalarm communicationfearnonlinear vocal phenomenayellow-bellied marmots

Identifiers

PMID40176508
PMCPMC11966161

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