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On the specific status of holarctic long-tailed squirrels; a bioacoustical study

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An analysis of alarm calls of long-tailed squirrels demonstrates that the calls of the conspecificCitellus parryi populations of Alaska and North Siberia differ more from one another than those ofC. parryi of Alaska andC. undulatus of Central Asia and South Siberia. The hypothesis is suggested that a pleistocene relic population ofC. undulatus exists in North-West Alaska.

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  1. Biological Faculty of the Lomonossov State University, Leninskiye Gory, 117234, Moscow, USSR

    A. A. Nikolski & D. Wallschläger

  2. Sektion Biologie der Humboldt-Universität, Invalidenstrasse 43, DDR-1040, Berlin, Germany

    A. A. Nikolski & D. Wallschläger

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In the American literature the genus is often termed Spermophilus.

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Nikolski, A.A., Wallschläger, D. On the specific status of holarctic long-tailed squirrels; a bioacoustical study. Experientia 38, 808–809 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01972284

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