Cottontop tamarin, Saguinus oedipus, alarm calls contain sufficient information for recognition of individual identity

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1379-1385

  Sproul, Catherine ^a   Palleroni, Alberto ^a   Hauser, Marc D ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PRIMATE; RAPTOR; RECOGNITION; SIGNALING;

ACCIPITER GENTILIS; SAGUINUS IMPERATOR; SAGUINUS OEDIPUS; SIMIIFORMES;

EID: 33751171286     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.04.006     Document Type: Article

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