Call combination order and iterations may shift meaning in sooty mangabey vocal sequences
These findings suggest that meaningful combinatorial capacities can extend beyond great apes and alarm contexts to socially benign interactions in monkeys. However, repertoire-wide use of meaning-shifting bigrams remains unconfirmed outside hominids.
Authors
- Auriane Le Floch
- Tanit Souha Azaiez
- Catherine Crockford
- Natacha Bande
- Klaus Zuberbühler
- Roman M. Wittig
- Cédric Girard-Buttoz
Institutions
- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (FR)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Saint-Étienne (FR)
- Inserm (FR)
- University of St Andrews (GB)
- German Primate Center (DE)
- Mines Saint-Étienne (FR)
- Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (FR)
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (DE)
- Swiss Centre for Scientific Research (CI)
- Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition (DE)
- Institut des Sciences Cognitives (FR)
- University of Neuchâtel (CH)
- University of Göttingen (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Biology
- Published
- 2026-02-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-026-02528-4
- Primary Topic
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00