Loud calls as indicators of dominance in male baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 374-384

  Kitchen, Dawn M ^a   Seyfarth, Robert M ^a   Fischer, Julia ^b   Cheney, Dorothy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baboons; Dominance; Loud calls; Male male competition

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; HONEST SIGNALING; MALE BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE; SOCIAL STATUS; VOCALIZATION;

BOTSWANA; OKAVANGO DELTA;

PAPIO; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES; SCOMBEROMORUS;

EID: 0038614825     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-003-0588-1     Document Type: Article

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