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Field studies on male forest guenon alarm-calling behaviour have revealed a number of intricacies about how these primates use vocalizations to protect themselves from predation. In these species, the vocal behaviour of adult females is often different from that of the males, but little systematic work has been done. Here, we describe the alarm call system of female Campbell's monkeys, Cercopithecus campbelli, in their natural forest habitat in western Ivory Coast. We found that in response to disturbing events, females produced three basic alarm call types, ‘wak-oos’, ‘hoks’ and acoustically variable ‘trill’ calls, consisting of repeated and rapidly ascending (RRA) pulses, which varied systematically in the temporal and frequency domains. Using observational and experimental data we were able to demonstrate that the RRA calls consisted of four acoustic variants, which could be associated with specific contexts, allowing listeners to draw inferences about the type of disturbance experienced by the caller. We also compared the alarm call behaviour of free-ranging individuals with published results from captivity. As predicted, captive individuals failed to produce predator-specific alarm calls, but they also produced an RRA variant in response to humans that was absent in the wild. We discuss the relevance of these findings in terms of their broader potential impact on evolutionary theories of primate communication.
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The alarm call system of female Campbell's monkeys
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Auteur(s)
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Karim Ouattara
1, 2, 3, 4
, Klaus Zuberbühler
4, 5
, Koffi J.-N. N'Goran
1, 4
, Jean-Emile Gombert
3
, Alban Lemasson
2
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Laboratoire de zoologie et de biologie animale [Cocody, Abidjan]
( 1182030 )
- Laboratoire de Zoologie et Biologie Animale, Université de Cocody, 10 BP770, Abidjan 10, Côte d'Ivoire
- Côte d’Ivoire
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Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny ( 218070 )
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EthoS -
Ethologie animale et humaine
( 192793 )
- Campus de Beaulieu - Bat 25
263 avenue du Général Leclerc
35042 RENNES Cedex
- France
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Université de Caen Normandie UMR6552 ( 7127 )
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Normandie Université ( 455934 )
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Université de Rennes UMR6552 ( 105160 )
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR6552 ( 441569 )
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CRPCC EA 1285 -
Centre de Recherches en Psychologie Cognition et Communication
( 2295 )
- France
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Université de Bretagne Sud ( 172265 )
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Université de Brest ( 300314 )
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MEN : EA1285 ( 300583 )
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Université de Rennes 2 ( 406201 )
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Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques - Taï Monkey Project
( 464824 )
- 01 BP1303
- Côte d’Ivoire
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Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques (CSRS) ( 351065 )
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School of Psychology and Neuroscience [University of St. Andrews]
( 455688 )
- St Mary's Quad, South Street, St Andrews KY16 9JP, Scotland
- Royaume-Uni
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University of St Andrews [Scotland] ( 14827 )
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Numéro |
1
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Page/Identifiant |
35-44
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Audience |
Internationale
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Date de publication |
2009
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Vulgarisation |
Non
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Comité de lecture |
Oui
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Volume |
78
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Domaine(s) |
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Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Psychologie
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Mots-clés |
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Cercopithecus campbelli, alarm call, Campbell's monkey, evolution of language, predation, referential, semantic
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DOI |
10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.03.014 |