Responses of redfronted lemurs to experimentally modified alarm calls: Evidence for urgency-based changes in call structure

Ethology

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 763-778

  Fichtel, Claudia ^a   Hammerschmidt, Kurt ^a,b  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; PRIMATE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; EULEMUR; EULEMUR FULVUS; EULEMUR FULVUS RUFUS; LEMURIDAE; PRIMATES; RAPTORES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 0036741055     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2002.00816.x     Document Type: Article

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