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SUBMITTER: Berthet M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6527438 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Berthet Mélissa M Mesbahi Geoffrey G Pajot Aude A Cäsar Cristiane C Neumann Christof C Zuberbühler Klaus K
Science advances 20190515 5
Previous work suggested that titi monkeys <i>Callicebus nigrifrons</i> combine two alarm calls, the A- and B-calls, to communicate about predator type and location. To explore how listeners process these sequences, we recorded alarm call sequences of six free-ranging groups exposed to terrestrial and aerial predator models, placed on the ground or in the canopy, and used multimodel inference to assess the information encoded in the sequences. We then carried out playback experiments to identify ...[more]