The syntax and meaning of wild gibbon songs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Clarke, Esther ^a   Reichard, Ulrich H ^b,c   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIMATE; PROTECTION; SEMANTICS; SINGING; THAILAND; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL; HAPLORHINI; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

HYLOBATES LAR; HYLOBATIDAE; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HYLOBATES; MALE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; THAILAND; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 40149104013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000073     Document Type: Article

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