Speaker
Claudia Fichtel
(Leibniz Institute for Primatology, Göttingen, Germany)
Description
Primates exhibit an astonishing diversity of communicative systems, with important variation in both the nature and the number of signals they produce. Although the link between social and communicative complexity has been supported across communicative modalities, several aspects of communicative complexity have not been systematically addressed. In this talk, I will give an overview about the link between social and communicative complexity in primates and address additional levels of communicative complexity such as context dependent meaning of vocalizations, vocal sequences, and how social learning contributes to communicative complexity.
