Laterality in the use of the prehensile tail in the spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi)

Cortex

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 123-130

  Laska, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Laterality; Prehensile tail; Spider monkey

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MONKEY; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; TAIL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0031930461     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70741-X     Document Type: Article

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