'Mindreading' mammals? Attribution of belief tasks with dolphins

Animal Welfare

Volumn 10, Issue SUPPL., 2001, Pages

  Tschudin, A J P C ^a  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Dolphin; Mental state attribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013385853     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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