Chimpanzees extract social information from agonistic screams

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Slocombe, Katie E ^a   Kaller, Tanja ^a   Call, Josep ^b   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 77955363802     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011473     Document Type: Article

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