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dc.contributor.authorCoye, Camille
dc.contributor.authorZuberbühler, Klaus
dc.contributor.authorLemasson, Alban
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-18T23:34:01Z
dc.date.available2017-04-18T23:34:01Z
dc.date.issued2016-05
dc.identifier.citationCoye , C , Zuberbühler , K & Lemasson , A 2016 , ' Morphologically structured vocalizations in female Diana monkeys ' , Animal Behaviour , vol. 115 , pp. 97-105 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.03.010en
dc.identifier.issn0003-3472
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 242038582
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: dcfd253a-1861-4fc8-92d8-0fcd87b12363
dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:B43CF825E3D216E7EFAAC6929D6D1B7E
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84962467580
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000375654900010
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-8378-088X/work/64360716
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/10629
dc.descriptionResearch was funded by the French Ministry of Research, Institut Universitaire de France, ANR ‘Orilang’ and the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/European Research Council grant agreement n° 283871.en
dc.description.abstractSocial complexity is often thought of as a driving force in the evolution of communication and cognition, but this is at odds with the fact that nonhuman primates generally display only very limited flexibility in vocal production. Some primates partially overcome their limited vocal flexibility by combining two or more acoustically inflexible calls into complex sequences. Equally relevant is that some primate calls consist of separable morphological elements whose combinations create different meanings. Here, we focus on the vocal system of wild female Diana monkeys, Cercopithecus diana, which produce three call units (R, L, A) either singly or merged as RA or LA call combinations. Previous work has shown that R and L convey information about external events, while A conveys information about caller identity. We tested this hypothesis experimentally, by broadcasting artificially combined utterances to eight adult females. To test the significance of the R and L ‘event’ units, we merged them with the A ‘identity’ unit of a group member. To test the significance of the ‘identity’ unit, we merged an R ‘event’ unit with an ‘identity’ unit from a group member or a neighbouring individual. Subjects responded in ways that suggested that both event and identity units were relevant, suggesting that Diana monkeys’ social calls possess morphosemantic features. We discuss this finding in relation to the coevolution of communication and social complexity in primates.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofAnimal Behaviouren
dc.rights© 2016 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.03.010en
dc.subjectAcoustic playbacken
dc.subjectCall combinationen
dc.subjectField experimenten
dc.subjectGuenonsen
dc.subjectMorphologyen
dc.subjectSocial communicationen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.titleMorphologically structured vocalizations in female Diana monkeysen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciencesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolutionen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.03.010
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2017-04-18


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