Audience effects in chimpanzee copulation calls

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 282-284

  Townsend, Simon ^a,b   Zuberbuhler, Klaus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b BUDONGO CONSERVATION FIELD STATION   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Aggression; Call production; Cognition; Copulation calls; Female competition

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; PAN; PRIMATES;

EID: 70349245931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.2.3.6796     Document Type: Article

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