Comparing responses of four ungulate species to playbacks of baboon alarm calls

Animal Cognition

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 861-870

  Kitchen, Dawn M ^a,b   Bergman, Thore J ^c   Cheney, Dorothy L ^d   Nicholson, James R ^b   Seyfarth, Robert M ^d  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Baboon; Heterospecific alarm calls; Impala; Tsessebe; Wildebeest; Zebra

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTELOPE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HORSE; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANTELOPES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EQUIDAE; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AEPYCEROS MELAMPUS; ANIMALIA; CONNOCHAETES TAURINUS; DAMALISCUS LUNATUS; EQUUS BURCHELLII; EQUUS SUBG. HIPPOTIGRIS; FELIDAE; PANTHERA PARDUS; PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PAPIO URSINUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 77958468031     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-010-0334-9     Document Type: Article

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