Wild western lowland gorillas signal selectively using odor

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Klailova, Michelle ^a,b,c   Lee, Phyllis C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas ISCSP Technical University of Lisbon   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; GORILLA; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PREDICTION; SMELLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELL;

EID: 84904127086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099554     Document Type: Article

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