Diurnal distribution of loud calls in sympatric wild indris (indri indri) and ruffed lemurs (varecia variegata): Implications for call functions

Primates

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 393-396

  Geissmann, Thomas ^a   Mutschler, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Calls; Diurnal distribution; Function of calls; Madagascar; Song

Indexed keywords

INDRI; INDRI INDRI; LEMURIDAE; VARECIA; VARECIA VARIEGATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PROSIMIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TERRITORIALITY; TIME; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; LEMURIDAE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STREPSIRHINI; TERRITORIALITY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 39049179800     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-006-0189-5     Document Type: Article

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