Dorothy Cheney & Robert Seyfarth
Departments of Biology and Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Publications, Grad Students, Post-Docs
Publications
1976 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010
2018
Silk, J.B., Seyfarth, R.M. & Cheney, D.L. 2018. Quality versus quantity: do weak bonds enhance the fitness of female baboons? Animal Behaviour 140:207-211.
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Seyfarth, R.M. & Cheney, D.L. 2018.Pragmatic flexibility in primate vocal production. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 21:56-61.
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Cheney, D.L. & Seyfarth, R.M. 2018. Flexible usage and social function in primate vocalizations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115:1974-1979.
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2017
Bray, EE, Sammel, MD, Cheney, DL, Serpell, JA, & Seyfarth, RM. 2017. Effects of maternal investment, temperament, and cognition on guide dog success. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114: 9128-9133.
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Bray, EE, Sammel, MD, Seyfarth, RM, Serpell, JA & Cheney, DL. 2017. Temperament and problem solving in a population of adolescent guide dogs. Animal Cognition 20: 923-939. DOI 10.1007/s10071-017-1112-8.
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Schamberg, I., Cheney, D.L. & Seyfarth, R.M. 2017. Bonobos (Pan paniscus) perform branch drag displays before long-distance travel. International Journal of Primatology 38: 500-512.
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Schamberg, I., Cheney, D.L., Clay, Z. Hohmann, G. & Seyfarth, R.M. 2017. Bonobos use call combinations to facilitate inter-party travel recruitment. Behavioural Ecology & Sociobiology 21:71-75.
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Seyfarth, R.M. & Cheney, D.L. 2017. Precursors to language: Social cognition and pragmatic inference in primates. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 24: 79-84.
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Bray, EE, Sammel MD, Cheney DL, Serpell JA, Seyfarth RM. 2017. Characterizing early maternal style in a population of guide dogs. Frontiers in Psychology. 8:175.
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2016
Silk, JB, Seyfarth, RM, Cheney, DL. 2016. Strategic use of affiliative vocalizations by wild female baboons. PLoS ONE 11(10):e0163978.
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Platt, ML, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 2016. Adaptations for social cognition in the primate brain. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 371:20150096.
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Schamberg, I, Cheney DL, Clay Z, Hohmann G, Seyfarth RM. 2016. Call combinations, vocal exchanges, and interparty movement in wild bonobos. Animal Behaviour. 122:109-116.
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Cheney, DL, Silk JB, Seyfarth RM. 2016. Network connections, dyadic bonds, and fitness in wild female baboons. Royal Society Open Science. 3:160255.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2016. The origin of meaning in animal signals. Animal Behaviour 124 :1-8.
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2015
Cheney, DL, Crockford C, Engh AE, Wittig R, Seyfarth RM. 2015. The costs of parental and mating effort for male baboons. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 69:303-312.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2015. The evolution of concepts about agents: Or, what do animals recognize when they recognize an individual? The Conceptual Mind: New Directions in the Study of Concepts. (Margolis, E., Laurence, S., Eds.).:57-76., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2015. How sociality shapes the brain, behaviour, and cognition. Animal Behaviour. 103:187-190.
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Gersick, AS, Cheney DL, Schneider JM, Seyfarth RM, Holekamp KE. 2015. Long-distance communication facilitates cooperation among wild spotted hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta). Animal Behaviour. 103:107-116.
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Kalbitzer, U, Heistermann M, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM, Fischer J. 2015. Social behavior and patterns of testosterone and glucocorticoid levels differ between male chacma and Guinea baboons. Hormones and Behavior. 75:100-110.
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2015. Social cognition. Animal Behaviour. 103:191-202.
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Price, T, Hammerschmidt K, Wadewitz P, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM, Fischer J. 2015. Vervets revisited: A quantitative analysis of alarm call structure and context specificity. Scientific Reports. 5:13220.
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2014
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2014. The evolution of language from social cognition. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 28:5-9.
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Seyfarth, RM, Silk JB, Cheney DL. 2014. Social bonds in female baboons: the interaction between personality, kinship, and rank. Animal Behaviour. 87:23-29.
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2013
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2013. Affiliation, empathy, and the origins of Theory of Mind. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110:10349-10356.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2013. The evolution of concepts about agents. Navigating the social world: What infants, children, and other species can teach us. (Banaji, M.R., Gelman, S.A., Eds.).:27-30., Oxford: Oxford University Press
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Kitchen, D, Cheney DL, Engh AL, Fischer J, Moscovice L, Seyfarth RM. 2013. Male baboon responses to experimental manipulations of loud ‘wahoo calls’: testing an honest signal of fighting ability. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology. 67:1825-1835.
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Silk, JB, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM. 2013. A practical guide to the study of social relationships. Evolutionary Anthropology. 22:213-225.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2013. Social cognition: The primate mind before tools, language, and culture. Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture. (Hatfield, G., Pittman, M., Eds.).:105-122., Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2013. Social relationships, social cognition, and the evolution of mind in primates. Comprehensive Handbook of Psychology, Volume 3: Biological Psychology and Neuroscience. (Nelson, Randy J., Mizumori, Sheri, Eds.).:574-594., New York: John Wiley & Sons
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2012
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2012. Cognition, communication, and language. Evolutionary Anthropology. 21:186.
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Cheney, DL, Silk JB, Seyfarth RM. 2012. Evidence for intrasexual selection in wild female baboons. Animal Behaviour. 84:21-27.
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Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 2012. The evolution of a cooperative social mind. Oxford Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology. (Vonk, J., Shackelford, T., Eds.).:507-528., Oxford: Oxford University Press
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2012. The evolutionary origin of friendship. Annual Review of Psychology. 63:153-177.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2012. Primate social cognition as a precursor to language. Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution. (Gibson, K., Tallerman, M., Eds.).:59-70., Oxford: Oxford University Press
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2012. Social cognition. The Evolution of Primate Societies. (Mitani, J., Call, J., Kappeler, P., Palombit, R., Silk, J.B., Eds.).:628-640., Chicago: University of Chicago Press
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Silk, JB, Alberts SA, Altmann J, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 2012. Stability of partner choice among female baboons. Animal Behaviour. 83:1511-1518.
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Seyfarth, RM, Silk JB, Cheney DL. 2012. Variation in personality and fitness in wild female baboons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109:16980-16985.
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2011
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2011. Animal Cognition: Chimpanzee alarm calls depend on what others know. Current Biology. 22:R51-R52.
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Cheney, DL. 2011. Cooperation in Non-Human Primates: Function and Cognition. Animal Thinking: Contemporary Issues in Comparative Cognition. (Menzel, R., Fischer, J., Eds.).:239-252., Cambridge: MIT Press
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Cheney, DL. 2011. The extent and limits of cooperation in animals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 108:10902-10909.
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2010 Back to Top
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL, Bergman T, Fischer J, Zuberbuhler K, Hammerschmidt K. 2010. The central importance of information in studies of animal communication. Animal Behaviour. 80:3-8.
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Kitchen, DM, Bergman T, Cheney DL, Nicolson J, Seyfarth RM. 2010. Comparing responses of four ungulate species to playbacks of baboon alarm calls. Animal Cognition. 13:861-870.
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Cheney, DL, Moscovice L, Heesen M, Mundry R, Seyfarth RM. 2010. Contingent cooperation between wild female baboons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 107:9562-9566.
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Silk, JB, Beehner JC, Bergman T, Crockford C, Engh AL, Moscovice L, Wittig RM, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 2010. Female chacma baboons form strong, equitable, and enduring social bonds. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology. 64:1733-1747.
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Moscovice, L, DiFiore A, Crockford C, Kitchen D, Wittig RM, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 2010. Hedging their bets? Male and female chacma baboons form friendships based on likelihood of paternity Animal Behaviour. 79:1007-1015.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2010. Primate communication. Primate Neuroethology. (Platt, M., Ghazanfar, A.A., Eds.).:84-97., Oxford: Oxford University Press
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Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 2010. Primate communication and human language: Continuities and discontinuities. Mind the Gap: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Behavior of Nonhuman and Human Primates. (Kappeler, P., Silk, J.B., Eds.).:283-298., Cambridge: Harvard University Press
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Cheney, DL. 2010. Primatology: Monkey bromance. Current Biology. 20:R1074-R1076.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2010. Production, usage, and comprehension in animal vocalizations. Brain and Language. 115:92-100.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2010. The shared evolutionary history of kinship classifications and language. Commentary on “Human kinship, from conceptual structure to grammar. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 33:369-416.
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Silk, JB, Beehner JC, Bergman T, Crockford C, Engh AL, Moscovice L, Wittig RM, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 2010. Strong and consistent social bonds enhance the longevity of female baboons. Current Biology. 20:1359-1361.
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2009
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2009. Agonistic and Affiliative Signals: Resolutions of Conflict. Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. (Squire, L., Ed.).:223-226., New York: Elsevier
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Silk, JB, Beehner JC, Bergman T, Crockford C, Engh AL, Moscovice L, Wittig RM, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 2009. The benefits of social capital: Close social bonds among female baboons enhance offspring survival. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 276:3099-3104.
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Kitchen, DM, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM, Beehner JC, Bergman T, Crockford C, Engh AL, Fischer J, Wittig RM. 2009. Costs and consequences of male aggression directed at female chacma baboons. Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans: An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Aggression Against Females. (Muller, M., Wrangham, R.W., Eds.).:125-156., Cambridge: Harvard University Press
Engh, AL, Hoffmeier RR, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 2009. O brother where art thou? The varying influence of older siblings in rank acquisition by female baboons Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology. 64:97-104.
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Moscovice, L, Heesen M, DiFiore A, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 2009. Paternity alone does not predict long-term investment in juveniles by adult male baboons. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology. 63:1471-1482.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2009. Seeing who we hear and hearing who we see. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106:669-670.
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Wrangham, RW, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM, Sarmiento E. 2009. Shallow-water habitats as sources of fallback foods for hominins. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 140:630-642.
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Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 2009. Stress and coping mechanisms in female primates. Advances in the Study of Behavior. 39:1-35.
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Beehner, JC, Gesquiere L, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 2009. Testosterone related to age and life-history stages in male baboons and geladas. Hormones & Behavior. 56:472-480.
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2008
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2008. The evolution of social categories. Neurobiology of “umwelt”: How Living Beings Perceive the World. (Bethoz, A., Christen, Y., Eds.).:69-87., Berlin: Springer
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Wittig, RM, Crockford C, Lehman J, Whiten P, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 2008. Focused grooming networks and stress alleviation in wild female baboons. Hormones & Behavior. 54:170-177.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2008. Primate social knowledge and the origins of language. Mind and Society. 7:129-142.
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Crockford, C, Wittig RM, Whiten P, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 2008. Social stressors and coping mechanisms in wild female baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus). Hormones & Behavior. 53:254-265.
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2007
Ey, E, Hammerschmidt K, Seyfarth RM, Fischer J. 2007. Age- and sex-related variations in clear calls of chacma baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus). International Journal of Primatology. 28:947-960.
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Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 2007. Baboon Metaphysics., Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Crockford, C, Wittig RM, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 2007. Baboons eavesdrop to deduce mating opportunities. Animal Behaviour. 73:885-890.
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Wittig, RM, Crockford C, Wikberg E, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 2007. Kin-mediated reconciliation substitutes for direct reconciliation in baboons. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 274:1109-1115.
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Wittig, RM, Crockford C, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 2007. Vocal alliances in chacma baboons, Papio hamadryas ursinus. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology. 61:899-909.
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2006
Engh, AL, Beehner JC, Bergman T, Whiten P, Hoffmeier RR, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 2006. Behavioural and hormonal responses to predation in female chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus). Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 273:707-712.
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Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM, Fischer J, Beehner JC, Bergman T, Johnson S, Kitchen DM, Palombit R, Rendall D, Silk JB. 2006. Factors affecting mortality and reproduction among free-ranging baboons in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Life History, Reproductive Strategies, and Fitness in Baboons. (Swedell, L., Leigh, S., Eds.).:147-176., Amsterdam: Kluwer
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Engh, AL, Beehner JC, Bergman T, Whiten P, Hoffmeier RR, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 2006. Female hierarchy instability, male immigration, and infanticide increase glucocorticoid levels in female chacma baboons. Animal Behaviour. 71:1227-1237.
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Bergman, T, Beehner JC, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM, Whiten P. 2006. Interactions in male baboons: The importance of both males’ testosterone. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology. 59:480-489.
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Beehner, JC, Bergman T, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM, Whiten P. 2006. Testosterone predicts future dominance rank and mating activity among male chacma baboons. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology. 59:469-479.
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Engh, AL, Hoffmeier RR, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM. 2006. Who, me? Can baboons infer the target of vocalisations? Animal Behaviour. 71:381-387.
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2005
Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 2005. Constraints and preadaptations in the earliest stages of language evolution. Linguistic Review. 22:135-159.
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Seyfarth, RM. 2005. Continuities in vocal communication argue against a gestural origin of language. Commentary on “From monkey-like action recognition to human language: An evolutionary framework for neurolinguistics.”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 28:144-145.
Bergman, T, Beehner JC, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM, Whiten P. 2005. Correlates of stress in free-ranging male chacma baboons. Animal Behaviour. 70:703-713.
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Beehner, JC, Bergman T, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM, Whiten P. 2005. The effect of new alpha males on female stress in free-ranging baboons. Animal Behaviour. 69:1211-1221.
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Kitchen, DM, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM. 2005. Friends, food and females: contextual factors meditating contests between male chacma baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus) in Botswana. International Journal of Primatology. 26:105-125.
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Kitchen, DM, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM. 2005. Male chacma baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus) discriminate loud call contests between rivals of different relative ranks. Animal Cognition. 8:1-6.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL, Bergman T. 2005. Primate social cognition and the origins of language. Trends in Cognitive Science. 9:264-266.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2005. Social cognition in primates and other animals. The Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. (Bekoff, M., Ed.)., Phoenix: Greenwood
2004
Fischer, J, Kitchen D, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 2004. Baboon loud calls advertise male quality: Acoustic features and their relation to rank, age, and exhaustion. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology. 56:140-148.
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Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM, Fischer J, Beehner JC, Bergman T, Johnson D, Kitchen DM, Palombit R, Rendall D, Silk JB. 2004. Factors affecting mortality and reproduction among free-ranging baboons in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. International Journal of Primatology. 25:401-428.
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Kitchen, DM, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM. 2004. Factors mediating inter-group encounters in savanna baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus). Behaviour. 141:197-218.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2004. Meaning and emotion in animal vocalizations. Emotions Inside Out: 130 Years after Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. (Ekman, P., Campos, J.J., Davidson, R.J., de Waal, F., Eds.).:32-55., New York: New York Academy of Sciences
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Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 2004. Social complexity and the information acquired during eavesdropping by primates and other animals. Animal Communication Networks. (McGregor, P., Ed.).:583-603., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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2003
Kitchen, DM, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM. 2003. Female baboons’ responses to male loud calls. Ethology. 109:401-412.
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Bergman, T, Beehner JC, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM. 2003. Hierarchical classification by rank and kinship in baboons. Science. 302:1234-1236.
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Kitchen, DM, Seyfarth RM, Fischer J, Cheney DL. 2003. Loud calls as indicators of dominance in male baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus). Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology. 53:374-384.
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Silk, JB, Rendall D, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM. 2003. Natal attraction in adult female baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus) in the Moremi Reserve, Botswana. Ethology. 109:627-644.
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Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 2003. The recognition of other individuals’ social relationships. Kinship and Behavior in Primates. (Chapais, B., Berman, C.M., Eds.).:347-364., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2003. Signalers and receivers in animal communication. Annual Review of Psychology. 54:145-173.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2003. The structure of social knowledge in monkeys. Animal Social Complexity: Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies. (de Waal, F., Tyack, P., Eds.).:207-229., Cambridge: Harvard University Press
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2002
Fischer, J, Hammerschmidt K, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM. 2002. Acoustic features of male baboon loud calls: Influences of context, age, and individuality. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 111:1465-1474.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2002. Alarm calls. The Encyclopedia of Evolution. (Pagel, M., Ed.).:22-25., Oxford: Oxford University Press
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2002. The structure of social knowledge in monkeys. (Bekoff, M., Allen, C., Eds.)., C: MIT Press
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2002. What are big brains for? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99:4141-4142.
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Isbell, LA, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM. 2002. Why vervets (Cercopithecus aethiops) live in multimale groups. The Guenons: Diversity and Adaptation in African Monkeys. (Glenn, M., Cords, M., Eds.).:169-183., New York: Plenum
2001
Fischer, J, Hammerschmidt K, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 2001. Acoustic features of female chacma baboon barks. Ethology. 107:33-54.
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Fischer, J, Metz M, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM. 2001. Baboon responses to graded bark variants. Animal Behaviour. 61:925-931.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2001. Cognitive strategies and the representation of social relationships by monkeys. Evolutionary Psychology and Motivation, Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, vol. 48. (French, J.A., Kamil, A.C., Leger, D.W., Eds.).:145-178., Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2001. Dennett’s contribution to research on the animal mind. Perspectives in Philosophy: Daniel C. Dennett. (Ross, D.A., Brook, A., Eds.).:117-139., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Palombit, R, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM. 2001. Female-female competition for male “friends” in wild chacma baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus). Animal Behaviour. 61:1159-1171.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2001. Just like us? The limits of the human-monkey analogy The New Encyclopedia of Mammals. (MacDonald, D.W., Ed.).:366-367., Oxford: Oxford University Press
Manser, M, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 2001. Suricate alarm calls signal predator class and urgency. Trends in Cognitive Science. 6:55-57.
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2000 Back to Top
Fischer, J, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM. 2000. Development of infant baboon responses to female graded variants of barks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 267:2317-2321.
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Palombit, R, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM, Rendall D, Silk JB, Johnson S, Fischer J. 2000. Male infanticide and defense of infants in chacma baboons. Infanticide by Males and Its Implications. (van Schaik, C., Janson, C., Eds.).:123-152., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Rendall, D, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM. 2000. Proximate factors mediating ‘contact’ calls in adult female and their infants. Journal of Comparative Psychology. 114:36-46.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 2000. Social awareness in monkeys. American Zoologist. 40:902-909.
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Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 2000. Vocal reconciliation in free-ranging baboons. Conflict Resolution. (Aureli, P., de Waal, F., Eds.).:208-210., Berkeley: University of California Press
1999
Zuberbuhler, K, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM. 1999. Conceptual semantics in a nonhuman primate. Journal of Comparative Psychology. 113:33-42.
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Palombit, R, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM. 1999. Male grunts as mediators of social interaction with females in wild chacma baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus). Behaviour. 136:221-242.
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Rendall, D, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL, Owren MJ. 1999. The meaning and function of grunt variants in baboons. Animal Behaviour. 57:583-592.
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Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1999. Mechanisms underlying the vocalizations of non-human primates. Neural Mechanisms of Communication. (Konishi, M., Hauser, M.D., Eds.).:629-644., Cambridge: MIT Press
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 1999. Production, usage, and response in nonhuman primate vocal development. Neural Mechanisms of Communication. (Konishi, M., Hauser, M.D., Eds.).:391-417., Cambridge: MIT Press
Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1999. Recognition of other individuals’ social relationships by female baboons. Animal Behaviour. 58:67-75.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 1999. Social cognition in animals. The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. (Wilson, R., Keil, F., Eds.).:778-790., Cambridge: MIT Press
Silk, JB, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 1999. The structure of social relationships among female savanna baboons. Behaviour. 136:679-703.
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1997
Owren, MJ, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 1997. The acoustic features of vowel-like grunt calls in chacma baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 101:2951-2963.
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Palombit, R, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 1997. The adaptive value of “friendships” to female baboons: Experimental and observational evidence. Animal Behaviour. 54:599-614.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 1997. Behavioral mechanisms underlying vocal communication in nonhuman primates. Animal Learning and Behavior. 25:249-267.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 1997. Communication and the minds of monkeys. Origin and Evolution of Intelligence. (Scheibel, A.B., Schopf, J.W., Eds.).:27-42., Boston: Jones & Bartlett
Zuberbuhler, K, Noe R, Seyfarth RM. 1997. Diana monkey long distance calls: Messages for conspecifics and predators. Animal Behaviour. 53:589-604.
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Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1997. Reconciliatory grunts by dominant female baboons influence victims’ behavior. Animal Behaviour. 54:409-418.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 1997. Some general features of vocal development in nonhuman primates. Social Influences on Vocal Development. (Husberger, M., Snowdon, C.T., Eds.).:249-273., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
1996
Silk, JB, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM. 1996. The form and function of post-conflict interactions among baboons, Papio cynocephalus ursinus. Animal Behaviour. 52:259-268.
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Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1996. Function and intention in the calls of nonhuman primates. Proceedings of the British Academy. 88:59-76.
Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM, Palombit R. 1996. The function and mechanisms underlying baboon contact barks. Animal Behaviour. 52:507-518.
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1995
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 1995. Cognitive ethology. Concepts, Theories, and Rationality in the Biological Sciences. (Wolters, G., Lennox, James G., Eds.).:371-392., Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press
Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM, Silk JB. 1995. The responses of female baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus) to anomalous social interactions: evidence for causal reasoning? Journal of Comparative Psychology. 109:134-141.
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Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM, Silk JB. 1995. The role of grunts in reconciling opponents and facilitating interactions among adult female baboons. Animal Behaviour. 50:249-257.
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1994
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL, Harcourt AH, Stewart KJ. 1994. The acoustic features of gorilla double grunts and their relation to behavior. American Journal of Primatology. 33:31-50.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 1994. The evolution of social cognition in primates. Behavioral Mechanisms in Evolution and Ecology. (Real, L., Ed.).:371-389., Chicago: University of Chicago Press
1993
Isbell, LA, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM. 1993. Are immigrant vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) at greater risk of mortality than residents? Animal Behaviour. 45:729-734.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 1993. Meaning, reference, and intentionality in the natural vocalizations of monkeys. Language and Communication: Comparative perspectives. (Roitblat, H.L., Herman, L., Nachtigall, P., Eds.).:196-220., Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Owren, MJ, Dieter JA, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 1993. Vocalizations of rhesus (Macaca mulatta) and Japanese (Macaca fuscata) macaques cross-fostered between species show evidence of only limited modification. Developmental Psychobiology. 26:389-406.
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1992
Owren, MJ, Hopp S, Seyfarth RM. 1992. Categorical vocal signaling in nonhuman primates. Nonverbal vocal communication: Comparative and developmental approaches. (Papousek, H., Jurgens, U., Papousek, M., Eds.).:102-122., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Owren, MJ, Dieter JA, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 1992. Evidence of limited modification in the vocalizations of cross-fostered rhesus (Macaca mulatta and Japanese (M. fuscata) macaques. Topics in primatology, volume 1: Human origins. (Nishida, T., McGrew, W.C., Marler, P., Pickford, M., de Waal, F., Eds.).:257-270., Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press
Owren, MJ, Dieter JA, Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL. 1992. Food calls of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), Japanese macaques (M. fuscata), and immatures cross-fostered between species. Behaviour. 120:219-231.
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Cheney, DL. 1992. Intra-group cohesion and inter-group hostility: The relation between grooming distributions and inter-group competition among female primates. Behavioral Ecology. 3:334-345.
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 1992. Meaning and mind in monkeys. Scientific American. 267:122-129.
Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1992. Meaning, reference, and intentionality in the natural vocalizations of monkeys. Topics in primatology, volume 1: Human origins. (Nishida, T., McGrew, W.C., Marler, P., Pickford, M., de Waal, F., Eds.).:315-330., Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press
Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1992. Precis of and reply to commentaries on “How monkeys see the world”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 15:135-182.
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1991
Isbell, LA, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM. 1991. Group fusions and minimum group sizes in vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops). American Journal of Primatology. 25:57-66.
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Seyfarth, RM. 1991. Reciprocal altruism and the limits of correlational analysis. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 153:141-144.
1990 Back to Top
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 1990. The assessment by vervet monkeys of their own and another species’ alarm calls. Animal Behaviour. 40:754-764.
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Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1990. Attending to behaviour versus attending to knowledge: examining monkeys’ attribution of mental states. Animal Behaviour. 40:742-753.
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Isbell, LA, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM. 1990. Costs and benefits of home range shifts among vervet monkeys in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology. 27:351-358.
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Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1990. How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species., Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1990. Reading minds or reading behavior? Tests for a theory of mind in monkeys Natural Theories of Mind: The Evolution, Development, and Simulation of Everyday Mindreading. (Whiten, A., Ed.).:175-194., Oxford: Blackwell’s
Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1990. The representation of social relations by monkeys. Cognition. 37:167-196.
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Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1990. Truth and deception in animal communication. Cognitive Ethology; The Minds of Other Animals. (Ristau, C.A., Ed.).:127-152., Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
1989
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 1989. Empirical tests of theories of reciprocity: problems in assessment. Ethology and Sociobiology. 9:181-188.
Keddy Hector, A, Seyfarth RM, Raleigh MJ. 1989. Male parental care, female choice, and the effect of an audience in vervet monkeys. Animal Behaviour. 38:262-271.
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Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1989. Reconciliation and redirected aggression in vervet monkeys. Behaviour. 110:258-275.
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1988
Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1988. Assessment of meaning and the detection of unreliable signals in vervet monkeys. Animal Behaviour. 36:477-486.
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Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 1988. Do monkeys understand their relations? Machiavellian Intelligence. (Byrne, R.W., Whiten, A., Eds.).:69-84., Oxford: Oxford University Press
Cheney, DL, Andelman SJ, Seyfarth RM, Lee PC. 1988. The reproductive success of vervet monkeys. Reproductive Success. (Clutton-Brock, T.H., Ed.).:384-402., Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1988. Why monkeys don’t have language. The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, 19. (Petersen, G., Ed.).:175-219., Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press
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1987
Walters, JR, Seyfarth RM. 1987. Competition and cooperation within groups. Primate Societies. (Smuts, B.B., Cheney, D.L., Seyfarth, R.M., Wrangham, R.W., Struhsaker, T.T., Eds.).:306-317., Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 1987. Danger recognition in animals. The Oxford Companion to the Mind. (Gregory, R.L., Ed.).:178., Oxford: Oxford University Press
Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1987. The influence of intergroup competition on the survival and reproduction of female vervet monkeys. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology. 21:375-386.
Essock-Vitale, S, Seyfarth RM. 1987. Intelligence and social cognition. Primate Societies. (Smuts, B.B., Cheney, D.L., Seyfarth, R.M., Wrangham, R.W., Struhsaker, T.T., Eds.).:452-461., Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Cheney, DL. 1987. Interactions and relationships between groups. Primate Societies. (Smuts, B.B., Cheney, D.L., Seyfarth, R.M., Wrangham, R.W., Struhsaker, T.T., Eds.).:267-281., Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Cheney, DL, Wrangham RW. 1987. Predation. Primate Societies. (Smuts, B.B., Cheney, D.L., Seyfarth, R.M., Wrangham, R.W., Struhsaker, T.T., Eds.).:227-239., Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Smuts, BB, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM, Wrangham RW, Struhsaker TT. 1987. Primate Societies., Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Seyfarth, RM. 1987. Vocal communication and its relation to language. Primate Societies. (Smuts, B.B., Cheney, D.L., Seyfarth, R.M., Wrangham, R.W., Struhsaker, T.T., Eds.).:440-451., Chicago: University of Chicago Press
1986
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 1986. Complexities in the study of vervet monkey grunts. Current Perspectives in Primate Social Behavior. (King, F., Taub, D., Eds.).:378-388., New York: Van Nostrand Rheinhold
Hauser, MD, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM. 1986. Group extinction and fusion in free-ranging vervet monkeys. American Journal of Primatology. 11:63-77.
Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1986. The recognition of social alliances in vervet monkeys. Animal Behaviour. 34:1722-1731.
Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM, Smuts BB. 1986. Social relationships and social cognition in nonhuman primates. Science. 234:1361-1366.
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 1986. Vocal development in vervet monkeys. Animal Behaviour. 34:1640-1658.
1985
Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1985. Social and non-social knowledge in vervet monkeys. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 308:187-201.
Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1985. The social and non-social world of non-human primates. Relationships and Cognitive Development. (Hinde, R.A., Perret-Clermont, A., Stevenson-Hinde, J., Eds.).:23-40., Oxford: Oxford University Press
Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1985. Vervet monkey alarm calls: manipulation through shared information? Behaviour. 93:150-166.
1984
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 1984. The acoustic features of vervet monkey grunts. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 75:1623-1628.
Cheney, DL. 1984. Category formation in vervet monkeys. The Meaning of Primate Signals. (Reynolds, V., Harre, R., Eds.).:58-72., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 1984. Grooming, alliances, and reciprocal altruism in vervet monkeys. Nature. 308:541-543.
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 1984. The natural vocalizations of non-human primates. Trends in Neuroscience. 7:66-73.
Seyfarth, RM. 1984. What the vocalizations of monkeys means to humans, and what they mean to the monkeys themselves. The Meaning of Primate Signals. (Reynolds, V., Harre, R., Eds.).:43-56., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
1983
Cheney, DL. 1983. Extra-familial alliances among vervet monkeys. Primate Social Relationships. (Hinde, R.A., Ed.).:278-286., Oxford: Blackwell’s
Seyfarth, RM. 1983. Grooming and social competition in primates. Primate Social Relationships. (Hinde, R.A., Ed.).:182-190., Oxford: Blackwell’s
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL. 1983. How monkeys see the world: a review of recent research on East African vervet monkeys. Primate Communication. (Snowdon, C.T., Brown, M., Petersen, M., Eds.).:239-252., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Cheney, DL. 1983. Inter-group encounters among Old World Monkeys. Primate Social Relationships. (Hinde, R.A., Ed.).:233-241., Oxford: Blackwell’s
Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1983. Non-random dispersal in free ranging vervet monkeys: social and genetic consequences. American Naturalist. 122:392-412.
Cheney, DL. 1983. Proximate and ultimate factors related to the distribution of male migration. Primate Social Relationships. (Hinde, R.A., Ed.).:241-249., Oxford: Blackwell’s
1982
Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1982. How vervet monkeys perceive their grunts: field playback experiments. Animal Behaviour. 30:739-751.
Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1982. Recognition of individuals within and between groups of free-ranging vervet monkeys. American Zoologist. 22:519-529.
1981
Cheney, DL, Lee PC, Seyfarth RM. 1981. Behavioral correlates of non-random mortality among free-ranging female vervet monkeys. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology. 9:153-161.
Seyfarth, RM. 1981. Communication as evidence of thinking. Animal Mind – Human Mind. (Griffin, D.R., Ed.).:391-406., Berlin: Springer-Verlag
Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1981. Selective forces affecting the predator alarm calls of vervet monkeys. Behaviour. 76:25-61.
1980 Back to Top
Seyfarth, RM. 1980. The distribution of grooming and related behaviors among adult female vervet monkeys. Animal Behaviour. 28:798-813.
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL, Marler P. 1980. Monkey responses to three different alarm calls: evidence for predator classification and semantic communication. Science. 210:801-803.
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney. 1980. The ontogeny of vervet monkey alarm-calling behavior. Zeitschrift fur Tierpsychologie. 54:37-56.
Seyfarth, RM, Cheney DL, Marler P. 1980. Vervet monkey alarm calls: semantic communication in a free-ranging primate. Animal Behaviour. 28:1070-1094.
Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1980. Vocal recognition in free ranging vervet monkeys. Animal Behaviour. 28:362-367.
1978
Cheney, DL. 1978. Interactions of immature male and female baboons with adult females. Animal Behaviour. 26:389-408.
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Cheney, DL. 1978. The play partners of immature baboons. Animal Behaviour. 26:1038-1050.
Seyfarth, RM. 1978. Social relations among adult male and female baboons. I. Behavior during sexual consortship. Behaviour. 64:204-226.
Seyfarth, RM. 1978. Social relations among adult male and female baboons. II. Behavior throughout the female reproductive cycle. Behaviour. 64:227-247.
1977
Cheney, DL. 1977. The acquisition of rank and the development of reciprocal alliances among free-ranging immature baboons. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology. 2:303-318.
Cheney, DL, Seyfarth RM. 1977. Behavior of immature and adult male baboons during inter-group encounters. Nature. 269:404-406.
Seyfarth, RM. 1977. A model of social grooming among adult female monkeys. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 65:671-698.
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1976 Back to Top
Seyfarth, RM. 1976. Social relationships among adult female baboons. Animal Behaviour. 24:917-938.