Interspecific responses of ringtailed lemurs to playback of antipredator alarm calls given by Verreaux's sifakas

Ethology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 441-453

  Oda, Ryo ^a   Masataka, Nobuo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEMUR; LEMUR CATTA; LEMURIDAE; PROPITHECUS; PROPITHECUS SP.; PROPITHECUS VERREAUXI VERREAUXI; STREPSIRHINI;

ALARM CALL; ANTIPREDATOR BEHAVIOUR; PLAYBACK EXPERIMENT; RAIN-TAILED LEMUR; VERREAUX'S SIFAKA;

MADAGASCAR;

EID: 0029660082     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1996.tb01138.x     Document Type: Article

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