Male monkeys remember which group members have given alarm calls

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1587, 2006, Pages 735-740

  Wich, Serge A ^a   De Vries, Han ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alarm communication; Anti predator behaviour; Memorizing; Presbytis thomasi

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; CALLING BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MEMORY; PRIMATE;

ALARM MONITOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATIGUE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKING MEMORY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CERCOPITHECIDAE; COGNITION; FEAR; FEMALE; INDONESIA; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VOCALIZATION;

PRESBYTIS THOMASI; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CERCOPITHECIDAE; COGNITION; FEAR; FEMALE; INDONESIA; MALE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33646461311     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3320     Document Type: Article

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