Push or pull: An experimental study on imitation in marmosets

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 817-831

  Bugnyar, Thomas ^a,b   Huber, Ludwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle Für Ethologie   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMITATION BEHAVIOUR; MARMOSET;

CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; MARMOSETS;

EID: 0030734179     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0497     Document Type: Article

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