Antiphonal call timing in marmosets is behaviorally significant: Interactive playback experiments

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 195, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 783-789

  Miller, Cory T ^a,b   Beck, Kaylin ^a   Meade, Brooke ^a   Wang, Xiaoqin ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiphonal calling; Call timing; Common marmosets; Vocal behavior; Vocal interactions

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; MARMOSET; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME; VOCALIZATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; CALLITHRIX; FEMALE; MALE; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 69449092777     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-009-0456-1     Document Type: Article

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