The evolution of nonhuman primate loud calls: Acoustic adaptation for long-distance transmission

Primates

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 171-182

  Mitani, John C ^a   Stuht, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative methods; Primate vocal communication

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; PRIMATE; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 0031871697     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02557729     Document Type: Article

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