Graded or discrete? A quantitative analysis of Campbell's monkey alarm calls

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 109-118

  Keenan, Sumir ^a   Lemasson, Alban ^b   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alarm call; Campbell's monkey; Cercopithecus campbelli; Discrete signal; Graded signal; Nonhuman primate; Referential; Vocal repertoire

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATABASE; PREDATION; PRIMATE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL; VOCALIZATION;

ACCIPITRIDAE; CERCOPITHECUS; CERCOPITHECUS CAMPBELLI; FELIDAE; HAPLORHINI; PRIMATES;

EID: 84872352701     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.10.014     Document Type: Article

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