Who cares who calls? Selective responses to the lost calls of socially dominant group members in the white-faced capuchin (Cebus capucinus)

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 829-835

  Digweed, Shannon M ^a,b   Fedigan, Linda M ^a   Rendall, Drew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antiphonal; Capuchins; Contact call; Vocalizations

Indexed keywords

PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CEBIDAE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; CEBUS; FEMALE; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

AVES; CEBIDAE; CEBUS CAPUCINUS; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 34547092668     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20398     Document Type: Article

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