Male chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus) discriminate loud call contests between rivals of different relative ranks

Animal Cognition

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-6

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Baboons; Displays; Loud calls; Third party rank recognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; MALE; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

HAMADRYAS; PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PAPIO URSINUS;

EID: 11944268748     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-004-0222-2     Document Type: Article

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