Cheney and Seyfarth enter the minds of vervet monkeys and other primates to explore the
nature of primate intelligence and the evolution of cognition." This reviewer had to be …

The" ferment of constructive excitement" in ethology mentioned in the preface to the first
edition of this book has continued unabated, rekindling serious scientific consideration of the …

Vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) at Amboseli, Kenya, give acoustically different
alarm calls to different predators. Each alarm evokes contrasting, seemingly adaptive …

Paul W. Sherman ly isolated demes (13) or if (ii) between periods of dispersal and panmixia,
prey populations are sedentary and composed of isolated aggregations of individuals that …

This book will be a landmark text for all those interested in animal communication. Animal
Vocal Communication explicitly avoids human-centred concepts and approaches and links …

Understanding the information conveyed by animal signals requires studies of both
production and perception. It is important to determine the relationship between signal …

The variation in the acoustic structure of alarm calls appears to convey information about the
level of response urgency in some species, while in others it seems to denote the type of …

The performance of language is multimodal, not confined to speech. Review of monkey and
ape communication demonstrates greater flexibility in the use of hands and body than for …

Free-ranging rhesus monkeys on Cayo Santiago (Puerto Rico) give five acoustically distinct
scream vocalizations during agonistic encounters. These calls are thought to be an …

Recent findings from human communication suggest that some basic emotions conveyed in
nonverbal acoustic expressions, speech, and music are universally expressed and …