Interspecific Semantic Alarm Call Recognition in the Solitary Sahamalaza Sportive Lemur, Lepilemur sahamalazensis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Seiler, Melanie ^a,b   Schwitzer, Christoph ^a   Gamba, Marco ^c   Holderied, Marc W ^b  

^a Veterinary Department   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; EXPERIENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; LEMURIDAE; LEPILEMUR SAHAMALAZENSIS; MADAGASCAR; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; RESTLESSNESS; SEMANTICS; SONGBIRD; SYMPATRY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; LEMURIDAE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SYMPATRY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COPSYCHUS ALBOSPECULARIS; COUA; EULEMUR MACACO; LEMUR; LEMURIDAE; LEPILEMUR; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; REPTILIA;

EID: 84879386410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067397     Document Type: Article

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