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                     Primate communication and cognition

                                    Ongoing Projects

  • Role of grunts and girneys in mediating female-infant interactions among rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago (Jessica Whitham)

                                   Relevant Publications

D. Maestripieri.
    Assessment of danger to themselves and their infants by rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)
    mothers
    Journal of Comparative Psychology, 109: 416-420, 1995.
D. Maestripieri.
    Maternal responsiveness to infant distress calls in stumptail macaques.
    Folia Primatologica, 64: 201-206, 1995.
D. Maestripieri.
    Maternal encouragement in nonhuman primates and the question of animal teaching.
    Human Nature, 6: 361-378, 1995.
D. Maestripieri.
    Gestural communication and its cognitive implications in pigtail macaques (Macaca nemestrina).
    Behaviour, 133: 997-1022, 1996.
D. Maestripieri.
    Primate cognition and the bared-teeth display: a reevaluation of the concept of formal dominance.
    Journal of Comparative Psychology, 110: 402-405, 1996.
D. Maestripieri.
    Social communication among captive stumptail macaques (Macaca arctoides).
    International Journal of Primatology, 17: 785-802, 1996.
D. Maestripieri, J. Call.
    Mother-infant communication in primates.
    Advances in the Study of Behavior, 25: 613- 642, 1996.
D. Maestripieri, K. Wallen.
    Affiliative and submissive communication in rhesus macaques.
    Primates, 38: 127-138, 1997.
D. Maestripieri and J. Morford, eds.
   Gestural Communication in Human and Nonhuman Primates.
   Special issue of Evolution of Communication, 1(2), 1997.
D. Maestripieri.
    Gestural communication in macaques: Usage and meaning of nonvocal signals.
    Evolution of Communication, 1: 193-222, 1997.
D. Maestripieri.
    Formal dominance: The emperor's new clothes?
    Journal of Comparative Psychology, 113: 96-98, 1999.
D. Maestripieri.
    Primate social organization, gestural repertoire size, and communication dynamics:
    a comparative study of macaques.
    In: The Origins of Language. What Nonhuman Primates Can Tell Us. Ed. by B. J. King,
    Santa Fe: School of American Research, pp. 55-77, 1999.
D. Maestripieri, T. Jovanovic, H. Gouzoules
    Crying and infant abuse in rhesus monkeys.
    Child Development, 71: 301-309, 2000.
T. Jovanovic, N. L. Megna, D. Maestripieri.
    Early maternal recognition of offspring vocalizations in rhesus macaques
    (Macaca mulatta).
    Primates, 41: 421-428, 2000.
L. A. Parr, D. Maestripieri.
     Nonvocal communication. In: Primate Psychology. Ed. by D. Maestripieri.
     Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 324-358, 2003.
J. C. Whitham, D. Maestripieri
      Primate rituals: The function of greetings between male Guinea baboons.
      Ethology, 109: 847-459, 2003.
D. Maestripieri, J. R.  Roney.
      Primate copulation calls and post-copulatory female choice.
      Behavioral Ecology, 16: 106-113, 2005.
D. Maestripieri, M. Leoni, S. S. Raza, E. J. Hirsch, J. C. Whitham.
       Female copulation calls in
Guinea baboons: Evidence for post-copulatory
       female choice?
       International Journal of Primatology, 26: 737-758, 2005.

D. Maestripieri.
     Gestural communication in three species of macaques (Macaca mulatta, M. nemestrina,
     M. arctoides): Use of signals in relation to dominance and social context.
     Gesture,
5: 57-73, 2005.
G. R. Pradhan, A. Engelhardt, C. P. van Schaik, D. Maestripieri.
    The evolution of female copulation calls in primates: a review and a new model.
    Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology,
59: 333-343, 2006.
J. C. Whitham, M. S. Gerald, D. Maestripieri.
      Intended receivers and functional significance of grunt and girney vocalizations in free-ranging female rhesus macaques.

      Ethology,113: 862-874, 2007.

Theses and Dissertations

Jessica Whitham.  Greeting interactions among adult male baboons.  Master's Thesis. University of Chicago, 2002.

Marco Leoni.   Female copulation calls and male mate guarding in baboons.   Master's Thesis. University of Chicago, 2003.

Jessica Whitham.  The grunt and girney vocalizations of free-ranging female rhesus macaques. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago, 2006.

 

 
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