Hand-clapping as a communicative gesture by wild female swamp gorillas

Primates

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 273-275

  Kalan, Ammie K ^a,d   Rainey, Hugo J ^b,c  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Congo)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Cambodia)

^d NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hand clapping; Lac T l ; Non verbal communication; Western gorilla

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; HOMINID; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; CONGO; FEMALE; GORILLA; HAND; OBSERVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; CONGO; FEMALE; GORILLA GORILLA; HAND; OBSERVATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AFRICA;

GORILLA BERINGEI; GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; HOMO;

EID: 67650644592     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-009-0130-9     Document Type: Article

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