Posture and reaching in tufted capuchins (Cebus apella)

Laterality

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 65-74

  Westergaard, Gregory Charles ^a,b   Kuhn, Heather E ^a   Lundquist, Andrew L ^a   Suomi, Stephen J ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b NIH Animal Center   (United States)

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EID: 0009047397     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713754255     Document Type: Article

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