Dialects in Japanese Monkeys: Vocal Learning and Cultural Transmission of Locale-specific Vocal Behavior?
- 1 December 1975
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Zeitschrift Fur Tierpsychologie
- Vol. 38 (3), 304-314
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1975.tb02006.x
Abstract
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.Keywords
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