Temporal and structural features of infant calls in relation to caregiving behaviour in common marmosets, Callithrix j. Jacchus

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 183-191

  Geiss, Stefan ^a   Schrader, Lars ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic parameter; Caregiving behaviour; Common marmoset; Communal rearing system; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CAREGIVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MARMOSET; NONHUMAN; REARING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; CALLITHRIX; CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; CALLITRICHIDAE; MARMOSETS;

EID: 0029852459     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(96)00022-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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