Spontaneous class grouping behavior by bonobos (Pan paniscus) and common chimpanzees (P. troglodytes)

Animal Cognition

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 157-170

  Spinozzi, Giovanna ^a   Natale, Francesco ^a   Langer, Jonas ^b   Brakke, Karen E ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Object sorting; Pan paniscus; Pan troglodytes; Spontaneous classifying

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000831691     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710050036     Document Type: Article

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