Who, me? Can baboons infer the target of vocalizations?

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The central importance of information in studies of animal communication. (2010, background): “…psychological skills in nonhuman primates, such as sensitivity to the presence of an audience or an awareness of the directedness of a vocalization, that may well have been precursors of intentional signalling during the course of human evolution (e.g. Engh et al. 2006; Wich & deVries 2006).”
Vocal alliances in Chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus) (2007, background): “Experimental studies have shown that baboons are able to make these inferences, and that they take into account such information as signaller identity and the nature of recent interactions when attempting to deduce who is the target of a signaller’s attention (Cheney and Seyfarth 1997; Engh et al. ”