The role of landmarks in cotton-top tamarin spatial foraging: Evidence for geometric and non-geometric features

Animal Cognition

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 99-108

  Deipolyi, Amy ^a   Santos, Laurie ^a   Hauser, Marc D ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geometric features; Landmarks; Primates; Spatial foraging

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001831755     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710100103     Document Type: Article

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