Strategic Use of Affiliative Vocalizations by Wild Female Baboons

Although vocal production in non-human primates is highly constrained, individuals appear to have some control over whether to call or remain silent. We investigated how contextual factors affect the production of grunts given by wild female chacma baboons, Papio ursinus, during social interactions....

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Main Authors: Silk, Joan B., Seyfarth, Robert M., Cheney, Dorothy L.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5081171/