Complex tool manufacture by a wild bonnet macaque, macaca radiata

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 23-35

  Sinha, Anindya ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Bonnet macaque; Cognition; Field study India; Insight; Macaca radiata; Tool manufacture; Tool use

Indexed keywords

MACACA; MACACA RADIATA;

EID: 0009647053     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000157227     Document Type: Article

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