Social learning of a communicative signal in captive chimpanzees

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 498-501

  Taglialatela, Jared P ^a,b   Reamer, Lisa ^c   Schapiro, Steven J ^c   Hopkins, William D ^b,c,d  

^a KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Language evolution; Vocal learning

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE POPULATION; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; DATA SET; LANGUAGE; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

EID: 84864454884     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0113     Document Type: Article

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