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Selective responding by recently separated juvenile rhesus monkeys to the calls of their mothers
Author(s) -
Hansen Ernst W.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
developmental psychobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.055
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1098-2302
pISSN - 0012-1630
DOI - 10.1002/dev.420090111
Subject(s) - juvenile , psychology , developmental psychology , disturbance (geology) , zoology , audiology , biology , medicine , ecology , paleontology
Four juvenile rhesus monkeys responded to the coo‐type vocalization of their respective mothers by increasing dramatically their own vocalization rate and their locomotor activities. The juveniles appeared quite disturbed when they heard their mothers voices and this disturbance was, with one exception, apparently specific to their own mothers.