Primate Vocal Communication by Peter Marler, John Mitani (auth.), Professor Dr. Dietmar

By Peter Marler, John Mitani (auth.), Professor Dr. Dietmar Todt, Dr. Philipp Goedeking, Dr. David Symmes (eds.)

Communication is either a prerequisite and manifestation of social association and during this feel a number of chapters of this quantity are aimed to enquire the best way vocal verbal exchange serves its final functionality of conserving social association. even though manifold parallels exist to vocal communique in birds, extra mechanisms of vocalization are present in primates. Treating some of the mental, ecological, behavioral, and neurobiological facets of vocalization this e-book presents an interdisciplinary procedure for the certainty of biocommunication in primates together with people. Conceptual in addition to methodological concerns are given in a balanced approach. The addition of a finished thesaurus provides an summary additionally to nonspecialists during this field.

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Occurrences of contact, food, and lost calls were noted mostly while sampling ecological and behavioral data from focal animals. Whenever pOSSible, I recorded the identities and behaviors of the vocalizing individuals and of the animals responding to the calls. Examples of vocalizations were recorded onto magnetic tape. An Uher tape recorder, modelIC at tape speed 19 em S-1 was used in conjunction with an Uher microphone with a plastic windscreen. 5-30 m from the vocalizing animal. Most recordings of vocalizations were transferred onto cassette tape (BASF chromium dioxide super II) using a Sony Professional Walkman, model WM-D6C, tape recorder.

The question remains, however, whether and how species whose cohesion calls are not quavered (such as species of the mona group) realize such recognition and why they have developed a system different from that of the majority ofguenons. In summary, one can hypothesize different levels of call perception in forest guenons for which visual cues are frequently lacking. The whole vocal profile of calls would allow species identity; the pitch and frequency component of calls which regularly change with aging would permit an approximate age and sex recognition; more subtle Vocal Quavering: A Basis for Recognition in Forest Guenons 29 variations of the above components and of the overall call duration would be relevant to internal mood and situational context.

1978; Symmes et a1. 1979; Symmes and Biden 1985), maternal voices of rhesus monkeys (M. mulatta) (Hansen 1976), and infant screams ofvervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) (Cheney and Seyfarth 1980). In toque macaques (M. sinica), too,females distinguish the agonistic screams of their own offspring from non offspring on the basis of the acoustic signal alone (Dittus and Baker, unpublished). Waser (1978) described the distinctive qualities of an old female mangababy's voice, and Gautier (1978) showed that several vocalizations of Cercopithecus cephus vary consistently between individuals, and many vocalizations change noticeably with age; but the discrimination of these differences by other monkeys was not tested.

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