Interspecies object exchange: Bartering in apes?

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 42, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 177-187

  Hyatt, Charles W ^a,c   Hopkins, William D ^b,c  

^a Union Institute   (United States)

^b BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barter; Chimpanzee; Object exchange; Reinforcement; Social cognition; Value

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

BARTERING; CHIMPANZEE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; SOCIAL COGNITION;

PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0031597508     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(97)00075-2     Document Type: Article

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