Forty years on from the question of referential signals in nonhuman communication

Jennifer Vonk

doi:10.26451/abc.07.02.01.2020

Abstract

Forty years on from the question of referential signals in nonhuman communication

Highlights

In 1980, two groundbreaking articles were published by the team of Seyfarth, Cheney and Marler
Seyfarth, Cheney and Marler published a brief Science report (1980a) and a more elaborated empirical paper in Animal Behaviour (1980b) that raised the intriguing possibility that monkeys conveyed referential information in their alarm calls
I was first exposed to those papers almost twenty years later as a graduate student transitioning from studying human memory to nonhuman primate cognition

Summary

Introduction

In 1980, two groundbreaking articles were published by the team of Seyfarth, Cheney and Marler. Seyfarth, Cheney and Marler published a brief Science report (1980a) and a more elaborated empirical paper in Animal Behaviour (1980b) that raised the intriguing possibility that monkeys conveyed referential information in their alarm calls.

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