Causal cognition in a non-human primate: Field playback experiments with Diana monkeys

Cognition

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 195-207

  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

Causal cognition; Diana monkeys; Field playback experiments; Non human primate

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FELIDAE; FEMALE; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BIRDS; CARNIVORA; CERCOPITHECUS; COGNITION; FEAR; HUMANS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0343061020     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(00)00079-2     Document Type: Article

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