Campbell's monkeys use affixation to alter call meaning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Ouattara, Karim ^a,b,c   Lemasson, Alban ^a   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b CENTRE SUISSE DE RECHERCHES SCIENTIFIQUES EN CÔTE D'IVOIRE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PHONEME; PREDATOR; VOCALIZATION; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAPLORHINI; HEARING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PREDATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION;

CERCOPITHECUS CAMPBELLI; PANTHERA PARDUS; PRIMATES;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 70649097153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007808     Document Type: Article

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