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- noun Plural form of
vervet .
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Examples
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Cheney and Seyfarth came up with an equally deft strategy for determining whether vervets consciously ascribe meanings to their calls.
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Since wrrrs and chutters don't sound alike, one can only conclude that the vervets perceived them as carrying similar meanings.
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Synonyms: Cheney and Seyfarth came up with an equally deft strategy for determining whether vervets consciously ascribe meanings to their calls.
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So they hunkered down in the acacia woodlands of Kenya's Amboseli National Park and, over the span of a decade, gathered data on how Thinking a the vervets tackled specific survival-related problems.
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Consider the matter of rank, which vervets tend to inherit from their mothers and maintain by forming alliances with other group members.
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So they hunkered down in the acacia woodlands of Kenya's Amboseli National Park and, over the span of a decade, gathered data on how the vervets tackled specific survival-related problems.
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Researchers have known since the 1960s that vervets give audibly different alarm calls in response to their three most common predators - the leopard, the eagle and the snake - and that each call elicits a different response among the vervets that hear it.
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Since wrrrs and chutters don't sound alike, one can only conclude that the vervets perceived them as carrying similar meanings.
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In addition to alarm calls, the vervets use particular grunts to mark four social acts: approaching a superior, approaching a subordinate, moving into an open area and spotting members of another group.
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They don't refer to other vervets as "siblings" or "enemies," or communicate abstractly about concepts like friendship or danger.
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