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Knowledge about non-human primate vocal communication has grown substantially in recent years and has resulted in a radically different view of the role vocalizations play in animals’ lives. Some 25 years ago, anthropologist Jane Lancaster summarized the then prevalent view by noting that, “.... field and laboratory workers have emphasized that vocalizations do not carry the major burden of meaning in most social interactions, but function instead either to call visual attention to the signaller or to emphasize or enhance the effect of visual or tactile signals” (Lancaster, 1968). Downplaying the role of vocal communication even further, Lancaster went on to speculate that “a blind monkey would be greatly handicapped in his social interactions whereas a deaf one would probably be able to function almost normally” (Lancaster, 1968, p.442). In general, the communication systems of monkeys and apes were thought to express the emotional or motivational states of the animals (reviewed in Marler, 1985, 1992; Cheney and Seyfarth, 1990a).
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Gouzoules, H., Gouzoules, S., Ashley, J. (1995). Representational Signaling in Non-Human Primate Vocal Communication. In: Zimmermann, E., Newman, J.D., Jürgens, U. (eds) Current Topics in Primate Vocal Communication. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9930-9_13
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