Production and perception of situationally variable alarm calls in wild tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella nigritus)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 989-1000

  Wheeler, Brandon C ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antipredator behaviors; Communication; Deception; Functionally referential signals; New World primates; Playback experiments; Urgency

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMMUNICATION; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PERCEPTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PRIMATE; RISK FACTOR; WILD POPULATION;

AVES; CEBIDAE; CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA NIGRITUS; CERCOPITHECIDAE; LEMURIDAE; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 77952672359     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-010-0914-3     Document Type: Article

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