The alarm call system of female Campbell's monkeys

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-44

  Ouattara, Karim ^a,b,c,d   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^b,e   N'goran, Eliezer K ^c   Gombert, Jean Emile ^d   Lemasson, Alban ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b Tai Monkey Project   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^c UNIVERSITÉ FÉLIX HOUPHOUËT BOIGNY   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^d UNIVERSITÉ RENNES 2   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

alarm call; Campbell's monkey; Cercopithecus campbelli; evolution of language; predation; referential; semantic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALARM SIGNAL; CALLING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE; VOCALIZATION;

CERCOPITHECUS; CERCOPITHECUS CAMPBELLI; PRIMATES;

EID: 67349270343     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.03.014     Document Type: Article

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