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Population-Specific Use of the Same Tool-Assisted Alarm Call between Two Wild Orangutan Populations (Pongopygmaeus wurmbii) Indicates Functional Arbitrariness

Arbitrariness is an elementary feature of human language, yet seldom an object of comparative inquiry. While arbitrary signals for the same function are relatively frequent between animal populations across taxa, the same signal with arbitrary functions is rare and it remains unknown whether, in par...

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Autores principales: Lameira, Adriano R., Hardus, Madeleine E., Nouwen, Kim J. J. M., Topelberg, Eva, Delgado, Roberto A., Spruijt, Berry M., Sterck, Elisabeth H. M., Knott, Cheryl D., Wich, Serge A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3702587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23861981
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069749