How Do Octopuses Use Their Arms?

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 306-316

  Mather, Jennifer A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; DRIVE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HISTOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; OCTOPUS; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; CONSUMMATORY BEHAVIOR; ESCAPE REACTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; INSTINCT; LOCOMOTION; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OCTOPODIFORMES; ORIENTATION; POSTURE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032160332     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.112.3.306     Document Type: Article

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