Campbell's monkeys concatenate vocalizations into context-specific call sequences

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 51, 2009, Pages 22026-22031

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

Alarm call; Nonhuman primate; Referential communication; Semantic; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAGLE; FELIDAE; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREAT; TRAVEL; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; MALE;

ACCIPITRIDAE; ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 76049109291     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908118106     Document Type: Article

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