Interspecies semantic communication in two forest primates

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1444, 2000, Pages 713-718

  Zuberbühler, Klaus ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CENTRE SUISSE DE RECHERCHES SCIENTIFIQUES EN CÔTE D'IVOIRE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

Author keywords

Alarm call; Anti predator behaviour; Mixed species; Non human primate; Semantic communication

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; CALLING BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION; PRIMATE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAGLE; FELIDAE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

CERCOPITHECUS CAMPBELLI; CERCOPITHECUS DIANA; CICONIIFORMES; FELIDAE; PANTHERA PARDUS; PRIMATES; STEPHANOAETUS CORONATUS;

EID: 0034616130     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1061     Document Type: Article

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