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Karen McComb

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51

Publications

7.1K

Citations

42

H-Index

1977

Active since

Affiliations

University of Sussex(Current)

University of Portsmouth

Zoological Society of London

Save the Elephants

Botswana Predator Conservation Trust

Karen McComb is an author at University of Sussex specializing in animal behavior, behavioral sciences, and evolutionary biology.

Top concepts

Animal BehaviorBehavioral ScienceEvolutionary BiologySocial BehaviorMammalogyCognitive ScienceAnimal CommunicationSpeech CommunicationSocial SciencesSpeech Perception

Publications per year

1977–2020

51

Publications

51

Matriarchs As Repositories of Social Knowledge in African Elephants

Karen McComb, Cynthia J. Moss, Sarah M. Durant et al. · Science · 2001 · 636 citations

Primatology, Education, Mammalogy +17

Anatomical constraints generate honesty: acoustic cues to age and weight in the roars of red deer stags

David Reby, Karen McComb · Animal Behaviour · 2003 · 588 citations

Animal Behaviour, Acoustic Ecology, Behavioral Sciences +8

Roaring and numerical assessment in contests between groups of female lions, Panthera leo

Karen McComb, Craig Packer, Anne E. Pusey · Animal Behaviour · 1994 · 577 citations

Animal Behaviour, Behavioral Sciences, Panthera Leo +8

Unusually extensive networks of vocal recognition in African elephants

Karen McComb, Cynthia J. Moss, Soila Sayialel et al. · Animal Behaviour · 2000 · 346 citations · Full text

Engineering, Health Sciences, Bioacoustics +10

Coevolution of vocal communication and sociality in primates

Karen McComb, Stuart Semple · Biology Letters · 2005 · 345 citations · Full text

Primatology, Language Evolution, Vocal Communication +19

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