Correlates of social role and conflict severity in wild vervet monkey agonistic screams.

Screams are acoustically distinct, high-pitched and high-amplitude calls, produced by many social species. Despite a wide range of production contexts, screams are characterised by an acoustic structure that appears to serve in altering the behaviour of targeted receivers during agonistic encounters...

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Main Authors: Stéphanie Mercier, Eloïse C Déaux, Erica van de Waal, Axelle E J Bono, Klaus Zuberbühler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214640