The function of food-associated calls in white-faced capuchin monkeys, Cebus capucinus, from the perspective of the signaller

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 431-440

  Gros Louis, Julie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE; SIGNAL;

ANIMALIA; CEBIDAE; CEBUS; CEBUS CAPUCINUS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 1542348533     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.04.009     Document Type: Article

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