Hornbills can distinguish between primate alarm calls

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1540, 2004, Pages 755-759

  Rainey, Hugo J ^a   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^a   Slater, Peter J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anti predator behaviour; Associative learning; Habituation; Interspecific communication; Ivory Coast; Primates

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIRD; COMMUNICATION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LEARNING; PRIMATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CERCOPITHECUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITUATION; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CERATOGYMNA; CERATOGYMNA ELATA; CERCOPITHECUS; CERCOPITHECUS DIANA; CICONIIFORMES; MAMMALIA; PANTHERA; PANTHERA PARDUS; PRIMATES; STEPHANOAETUS CORONATUS;

EID: 12144286355     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2619     Document Type: Article

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