A forest monkey's alarm call series to predator models

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 549-559

  Arnold, Kate ^a   Pohlner, Yvonne ^b   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anti predator; Call combinations; Cognition; Evolution of language; Predation; Referential communication; Semantic; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; CALLING BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FELID; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; PRIMATE; RAPTOR; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ACCIPITRIDAE; CERCOPITHECUS; CERCOPITHECUS NICTITANS; FELIDAE; PANTHERA PARDUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 38049019117     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-007-0479-y     Document Type: Article

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