Evidence for semantic communication in titi monkey alarm calls

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 405-411

  Cäsar, Cristiane ^a,b   Byrne, Richard W ^a   Hoppitt, William ^a   Young, Robert J ^b   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Callicebus; Functional reference; New World monkey; Playback experiment; Predation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALARM SIGNAL; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BIOACOUSTICS; CONSPECIFIC; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; LOCOMOTION; MAMMAL; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE; RAPTOR; VOCALIZATION;

CALLICEBUS; CALLICEBUS NIGRIFRONS; CARACARA; EIRA BARBARA; HAPLORHINI; MAMMALIA; PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES; RAPTORES;

EID: 84864143077     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.05.010     Document Type: Article

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