Manual dexterity in the Gorilla: Bimanual and digit role differentiation in a natural task

Animal Cognition

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 347-361

  Byrne, Richard W ^a   Corp, Nadia ^a   Byrne, Jennifer M E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bimanual coordination; Feeding skill; Great ape; Independent control; Mountain gorilla

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001691929     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710100083     Document Type: Article

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