The function and mechanisms underlying baboon 'contact' barks

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 507-518

  Cheney L, Dorothy ^a   Seyfarth M, Robert ^b   Palombit, Ryne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; PAPIO; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS URSINUS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS;

CHACMA BABOON; CONTACT BARK; VOCALIZATION;

BOTSWANA, OKAVANGO DELTA;

EID: 0030222876     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0193     Document Type: Article

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