Multiple environmental contexts and communication in pygmy marmosets (Cebuella pygmaea)

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 182-188

  Snowdon, Charles T ^a   De La Torre, Stella ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SAN FRANCISCO DE QUITO   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; MARMOSET; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOUND DETECTION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CALLITRICHINAE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 85047668798     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.116.2.182     Document Type: Article

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