Semantic communication in vervet monkeys and other animals

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 491-496

  Manser, Marta B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Animal communication; Human language; Linguistics; Representation; Semantics

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COMMUNICATION; HABITAT; LANGUAGE; PRIMATE; RESEARCH; SIGNAL;

ANIMALIA; CERCOPITHECUS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CERCOPITHECUS PYGERYTHRUS; HAPLORHINI;

EID: 84882870493     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.07.006     Document Type: Article

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