Individual recognition through olfactory- auditory matching in lemurs

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1784, 2014, Pages

  Kulahci, Ipek G ^a   Drea, Christine M ^b   Rubenstein, Daniel I ^a   Ghazanfar, Asif A ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross modal; Individual identity; Individual recognition; Lemur catta; Multimodal; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

PHARMACOLOGY; PHEROMONE;

AUDITORY CUE; CONSPECIFIC; OLFACTION; PRIMATE; SCENT MARKING; SIGNAL; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG EFFECTS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; METABOLISM; METAMORPHOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG EFFECTS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; LARVA; METABOLISM; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; PHARMACOLOGY; PHEROMONES; PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 84898622179     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0071     Document Type: Article

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