Stimulus enhancement and spread of a spontaneous tool use in a colony of long-tailed macaques

Primates

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-12

  Zuberbühler, Klaus ^a,b   Gygax, Lorenz ^a   Harley, Nerida ^a   Kummer, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Macaca fascicularis; Non human primates; Social learning; Stimulus enhancement; Tool use

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA FASCICULARIS; PRIMATES;

EID: 0002990147     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02382915     Document Type: Article

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