Female putty-nosed monkeys use experimentally altered contextual information to disambiguate the cause of male alarm calls.

Many animal vocal signals are given in a wide range of contexts which can sometimes have little in common. Yet, to respond adaptively, listeners must find ways to identify the cause of a signal, or at least rule out alternatives. Here, we investigate the nature of this process in putty-nosed monkeys...

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Main Authors: Kate Arnold, Klaus Zuberbühler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23755265/pdf/?tool=EBI