Predator guild does not influence orangutan alarm call rates and combinations

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 519-528

  Lameira, Adriano R ^a   de Vries, Han ^a   Hardus, Madeleine E ^b   Hall, Cedric P A ^a   Mitra Setia, Tatang ^c   Spruijt, Berry M ^a   Kershenbaum, Arik ^d   Sterck, Elisabeth H M ^a,e   van Noordwijk, Maria ^f   van Schaik, Carel ^f   Wich, Serge A ^g  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Universitas Nasional   (Indonesia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^e BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alarm calls; Call combinations; Orangutans; Predation; Primates

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; CALLING BEHAVIOR; FELID; GUILD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PRIMATE;

BORNEO;

FELIDAE; HAPLORHINI; HOMINIDAE; NEOFELIS NEBULOSA; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PONGO PYGMAEUS ABELII; PRIMATES;

EID: 84874000849     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-012-1471-8     Document Type: Article

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