Possible Role of Mother-Daughter Vocal Interactions on the Development of Species-Specific Song in Gibbons

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Koda, Hiroki ^a   Lemasson, Alban ^b,c   Oyakawa, Chisako ^a,d   Rizaldi, ^a,e   Pamungkas, Joko ^f   Masataka, Nobuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e ANDALAS UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^f BOGOR AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DAUGHTER; FEMALE; HYLOBATIDAE; INDEPENDENCE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NONHUMAN; SINGING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STEREOTYPY; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HYLOBATES; INDONESIA; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84881516101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071432     Document Type: Article

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