Wild female olive baboons adapt their grunt vocalizations to environmental conditions

Ethology

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 493-503

  Ey, Elodie ^a   Rahn, Charlotte ^a   Hammerschmidt, Kurt ^a   Fischer, Julia ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; HABITAT TYPE; PRIMATE; VOCALIZATION; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; HAEMULIDAE; OLEA EUROPAEA VAR. SYLVESTRIS; PAPIO; PAPIO ANUBIS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS;

EID: 64949154043     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2009.01638.x     Document Type: Article

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