The meaning and function of grunt variants in baboons

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 583-592

  Rendall, Drew ^a,c   Seyfarth, Robert M ^a   Cheney, Dorothy L ^a   Owren, Michael J ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b REED COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE; VOCALIZATION;

HAEMULIDAE; PAPIO; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS URSINUS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES;

EID: 0033105449     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.1031     Document Type: Article

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