Signalers and Receivers in Animal Communication

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 54, Issue , 2003, Pages 145-173

  Seyfarth, Robert M ^a   Cheney, Dorothy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal social behavior; Evolution; Language; Vocalizations

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; AROUSAL; HEARING; MOTIVATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

AFFECT; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0037969465     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.54.101601.145121     Document Type: Review

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