So for example, vervet monkeys hearing a leopard alarm might scurry up a tree, whereas the eagle call sends them running for cover under the closest shrub.
Capturing the image of this leopard carrying the corpse of a female vervet monkey with his baby still hanging on was a heart-wrenching experience for photographer Shafeeq Mulla of Zambia.
For a moment, her form shifted, flickering back and forth between a giant bird and a long-tailed monkey, but the coins created a weird static and finally she gave up.
It would be as extraordinarily interesting to attempt the same linguistic program to the other communication systems used in the wild such as the cries of vervet monkeys and bee dance.
Either there is a finite list of calls, so vervet monkeys, for instance, have a small list of calls to convey different warnings like " attack from a snake" or " attack from a leopard" .