Download or read book Primate Audition written by Asif A. Ghazanfar and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-08-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like speech, the species-specific vocalizations or calls of non-human primates mediate social interactions, convey important emotional information, and in some cases refer to objects and events in the caller's environment. These functional similarities suggest that the selective pressures which shaped primate vocal communication are similar to thos