Chimpanzee Alarm Call Production Meets Key Criteria for Intentionality

Anne Marijke Schel; Simon W. Townsend; Zarin Machanda; Klaus Zuberbühler; Katie E. Slocombe

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0076674

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Chimpanzee Alarm Call Production Meets Key Criteria for Intentionality

Anne Marijke Schel,

Affiliations Department of Psychology, University of York, York, United Kingdom, Budongo Conservation Field Station, Masindi, Uganda
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Simon W. Townsend,

Affiliation Animal Behaviour Group, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Zarin Machanda,

Affiliation Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Klaus Zuberbühler,

Affiliations Budongo Conservation Field Station, Masindi, Uganda, Department of Comparative Cognition, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, School of Psychology & Neurosciences, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom
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Katie E. Slocombe

* E-mail: katie.slocombe@york.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of York, York, United Kingdom
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Chimpanzee Alarm Call Production Meets Key Criteria for Intentionality

Anne Marijke Schel,
Simon W. Townsend,
Zarin Machanda,
Klaus Zuberbühler,
Katie E. Slocombe

Published: October 16, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0076674

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Title: “Chimpanzee Alarm Calls Are Warnings Not Cries Of Fear Say Scientists”
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