Social complexity and the information acquired during eavesdropping by primates and other animals

Animal Communication Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 583-603

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 33749016108     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511610363.030     Document Type: Chapter

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