A case of spontaneous acquisition of a human sound by an orangutan

Primates

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 56-64

  Wich, Serge A ^a,b   Swartz, Karyl B ^a,c   Hardus, Madeleine E ^b   Lameira, Adriano R ^b   Stromberg, Erin ^c   Shumaker, Robert W ^a,c  

^a Great Ape Trust of Iowa   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Greatapes; Imitation; Vocal learning

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; LEARNING; PRIMATE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL; ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMITATION; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; VOCALIZATION; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; PONGO PYGMAEUS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

HOMINIDAE; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 59149100915     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-008-0117-y     Document Type: Article

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