Testing for social learning in the "artificial fruit" processing of wildborn orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), Tanjung puting, Indonesia

Animal Cognition

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 305-313

  Custance, D M ^a   Whiten, A ^b   Sambrook, T ^b   Galdikas, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Imitation; Orangutans; Primate; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009004506     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710100100     Document Type: Article

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