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VOCAL COMMUNICATION BY THE RHESUS MOJSXEY ( MACACA MULATTA )
Author(s) -
ROWELL T. E.,
HINDE R. A.
Publication year - 1962
Publication title -
proceedings of the zoological society of london
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.915
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1469-7998
pISSN - 0370-2774
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1962.tb05698.x
Subject(s) - vocabulary , communication , range (aeronautics) , mood , variation (astronomy) , psychology , vocal communication , agonistic behaviour , computer science , speech recognition , cognitive psychology , social psychology , engineering , linguistics , aggression , philosophy , physics , astrophysics , aerospace engineering
Noises are difficult to describe, and this has been a barrier to understanding their meanings and using them in studies of behaviour. In the present study tape recordings and spectro‐graphic analysis were used to learn the properties of the noises and help to describe them. Noises fall into two groups, harsh noises and clear calls, which are considered seprately. Eight harsh noises associated with agonistic behaviour and four occurring in “friendly” situations are described. Clear calls show more individual variation and examples typical of five situations are given. A wide range of intermediates between the basic noises make a large “vocabulary” available to express small differences of mood.