Titi monkeys behaviour and ecology

Last updated on Dec 17, 2020
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This project aims to study the vocal communication and the ecology of wild titi monkeys (Callicebus nigrifrons). To this end, we combine biological observations and experiments on the field to theoretical linguistic work.

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Geoffrey Mesbahi
Geoffrey Mesbahi
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Impact of predator model presentation paradigms on titi monkey alarm sequences

Predator presentation experiments are widely used to investigate animal alarm vocalizations. They usually involve presentations of …
Mélissa Berthet, Geoffrey Mesbahi, Christiane Cäsar, Klaus Zuberbühler
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Animal linguistics in the making: the Urgency Principle and titi monkeys’ alarm system

The emergent field of animal linguistics applies linguistics tools to animal data in order to investigate potential linguistic-like …
Lara Narbona Sabaté, Geoffrey Mesbahi, Guillaume Dezecache, Christiane Cäsar, Klaus Zuberbühler, Mélissa Berthet
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Dramatic decline in a titi monkey population after the 2016–2018 sylvatic yellow fever outbreak in Brazil

Platyrrhini are highly vulnerable to the yellow fever (YF) virus. From 2016 to 2018, the Atlantic Forest of southeast Brazil faced its …
Mélissa Berthet, Geoffrey Mesbahi, Guilhem Duvot, Klaus Zuberbühler, Christiane Cäsar, Júlio Cèsar Bicca‐Marques
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Titi monkeys combine alarm calls to create probabilistic meaning

Previous work suggested that titi monkeys Callicebus nigrifrons combine two alarm calls, the A- and B-calls, to communicate about …
Mélissa Berthet, Geoffrey Mesbahi, Aude Pajot, Christiane Cäsar, Christof Neumann, Klaus Zuberbühler
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Contextual encoding in titi monkey alarm call sequences

Many primates produce one type of alarm call to a broad range of events, usually terrestrial predators and non-predatory situations, …
Mélissa Berthet, Christof Neumann, Geoffrey Mesbahi, Christiane Cäsar, Klaus Zuberbühler
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