When males call, females listen: sex differences in responsiveness to rhesus monkey, Macaca mulatta, copulation calls

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1059-1065

  Hauser, Marc D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognition; discrimination learning; individual recognition; Macaca mulatta; mate choice; motivation; perception; rhesus monkey; vocal communication; vocalization acoustics

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIOACOUSTICS; COGNITION; COPULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HABITUATION; MATE CHOICE; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; PERCEPTION; PRIMATE; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

MACACA; MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 34250016829     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.11.006     Document Type: Article

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