Female Putty-Nosed Monkeys Use Experimentally Altered Contextual Information to Disambiguate the Cause of Male Alarm Calls

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Arnold, Kate ^a   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; MALE; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; CERCOPITHECUS; COGNITION; COOPERATION; HABITUATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS; COGNITION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84878758053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065660     Document Type: Article

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