Population-Specific Use of the Same Tool-Assisted Alarm Call between Two Wild Orangutan Populations (Pongopygmaeus wurmbii) Indicates Functional Arbitrariness

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Lameira, Adriano R ^a,b   Hardus, Madeleine E ^b,c   Nouwen, Kim J J M ^a,d   Topelberg, Eva ^a,d   Delgado, Roberto A ^e   Spruijt, Berry M ^a   Sterck, Elisabeth H M ^a,f   Knott, Cheryl D ^g   Wich, Serge A ^h  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Pongo Foundation   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^g Boston University   (United States)

^h LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; HABITAT; HABITUATION; INDONESIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; PONGOPYGMAEUS WURMBII; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL STATUS; SURVIVOR; VOICE;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

ANIMALIA; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 84879829108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069749     Document Type: Article

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