Orangutan (Pongo spp.) whistling and implications for the emergence of an open-ended call repertoire: A replication and extension

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2326-2335

  Lameira, Adriano R ^a   Hardus, Madeleine E ^b   Kowalsky, Bernd ^c   De Vries, Han ^a   Spruijt, Berry M ^a   Sterck, Elisabeth H M ^a,f   Shumaker, Robert W ^d,g   Wich, Serge A ^e  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Heidelberg Zoo   (Germany)

^d INDIANAPOLIS ZOO   (United States)

^e LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^g INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WHISTLES; HUMAN SPEECH; NON-HUMAN PRIMATE; VOLUNTARY CONTROLS;

MAMMALS; SIGNALING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ORIFICES;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BREATHING MUSCLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMITATION; LEARNING; LIP; MALE; ORANG UTAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SINGING; SOUND DETECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; LIP; MALE; PONGO; RESPIRATORY MUSCLES; SINGING; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84883424420     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4817929     Document Type: Article

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