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Dialects in Japanese Monkeys: Vocal Learning and Cultural Transmission of Locale‐specific Vocal Behavior?
Author(s) -
Green Steven
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
zeitschrift für tierpsychologie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.739
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1439-0310
pISSN - 0044-3573
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1975.tb02006.x
Subject(s) - locale (computer software) , vocal learning , communication , vocal communication , sound production , cultural transmission in animals , sound (geography) , acoustics , psychology , speech recognition , biology , computer science , evolutionary biology , physics , operating system
Differences were detected by ear in vocalizations made during artificial feeding of Japanese monkey troops at three locations. Tape recording and sound spectrographic analysis confirmed a distinctive vocal pattern specific to each site and used only in the provisioning situation. The 3 different acoustic morphologies are variations on a shared tonal theme. Vocal learning by Macaca fuscata may have occurred separately at each site regulated by species‐wide constraints on vocal production.