Individuality in male songs of wild black crested gibbons (Nomascus concolor).
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY(2011)
摘要
This is the first study of vocal individuality in male songs of black crested gibbons. The sound recordings were carried out at two field sites, Pinghe, Ailao Mountains, and Dazhaizi, Wuliang Mountains, both located in Yunnan province, China. A total of 127 coda phrases of 38 male songs bouts of eight individual male gibbons were analyzed. Stepwise discriminant function analysis was used to examine the acoustic individuality of the males. We found that individuality among neighbors was very pronounced. Moreover, individuality within a site (i.e. among neighbors) is higher than among individuals between sites. Our finding suggests that black crested gibbons may actively increase their degree of vocal individuality against that of their immediate neighbors by vocal adjustment. Am. J. Primatol. 73: 431-438, 2011. (C) 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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Nomascus concolor,male song,individuality,individual identification,vocal adjustment
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