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ArticleCurrent zoology2025

Costly calling: Marmots who alarm call at higher rates are less likely to survive the summer and live shorter lives.

Daniel T Blumstein, Katie A Adler, Jazmine Uy

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Article in Current zoology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Nonlinear phenomena in marmot alarm calls: a mechanism encoding fear?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Daniel T BlumsteinDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 621 Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5793-9244
Katie A AdlerDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 621 Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7714-0026
Jazmine UyDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 621 Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Emitting alarm calls may be costly, but few studies have asked whether calling increases a caller's risk of predation and survival. Since observing animals calling and being killed is relatively rare, we capitalized on over 24,000 h of observations of marmot colonies and asked whether variation in the rate that yellow-bellied marmots (

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alarm callinglongevitypredationpredator deterrence

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