Capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella, fail to understand a cooperative task

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1215-1225

  Chalmeau, Raphaël ^a   Visalberghi, Elisabetta ^b   Gallo, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPUCHIN; COOPERATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR;

CEBIDAE; CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA;

EID: 0030668627     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0517     Document Type: Article

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