The development of a greeting signal in wild chimpanzees

Developmental Science

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1220-1234

  Laporte, Marion N C ^a,b   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b BUDONGO CONSERVATION FIELD STATION   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; UGANDA; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; UGANDA; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 80051932331     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01069.x     Document Type: Article

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