Wild gelada monkeys detect emotional and prosocial cues in vocal exchanges during aggression (IMAGE)

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Wild gelada monkeys detect emotional and prosocial cues in vocal exchanges during aggression

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Graphical abstract of the playback experiment. Geladas showed more interest towards stimuli violating a positive sequential order as well as after stimuli with calls of high emotional arousal. Gelada monkeys seem to show cognitive ability to recognize vocal affiliation directed at victims.

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Pedruzzi et al., 2025, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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