Female rhesus macaques discriminate unfamiliar paternal sisters in playback experiments: Support for acoustic phenotype matching

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1774, 2013, Pages

  Pfefferle, Dana ^a,b   Ruiz Lambides, Angelina V ^b,c   Widdig, Anja ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Kin discrimination; Mechanism; Paternal kin; Phenotype matching; Playback experiment; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; CALLING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; KIN RECOGNITION; KINSHIP; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PHENOTYPE; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 84887510398     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1628     Document Type: Article

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