Sources of acoustic variation: Implications for production specificity and call categorization in chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) grunts

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1631-1641

  Meise, Kristine ^a   Keller, Christina ^b   Cowlishaw, Guy ^c   Fischer, Julia ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC STRUCTURES; CALL TYPES; INFORMATION CONTENTS; SIGNALING SYSTEMS; VOCAL REPERTOIRE; VOCAL SIGNALS;

MAMMALS;

SIGNALING;

ANIMAL; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEARING; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PAPIO URSINUS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND DETECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PAPIO URSINUS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 79953051886     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3531944     Document Type: Article

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