Experimental evidence for limited vocal recognition in a wild primate: Implications for the social complexity hypothesis

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1696, 2010, Pages 3045-3053

  Bergman, Thore J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive evolution; Comparative cognition; Individual recognition; Social intelligence; Social knowledge; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CONSPECIFIC; EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUP SIZE; MONITORING; PRIMATE; VOCALIZATION; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; HAEMULIDAE; PAPIO; PAPIO URSINUS; PRIMATES; THEROPITHECUS; THEROPITHECUS GELADA;

EID: 77956898307     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0580     Document Type: Conference Paper

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