Spatial memory and foraging competition in captive western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)

Primates

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 147-160

  Gibeault, Stephanie ^a   MacDonald, Suzanne E ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competition; Foraging behaviour; Spatial memory; Western lowland gorilla

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MEMORY; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PRIMATE; SPATIAL COGNITION;

GORILLA GORILLA;

EID: 0034083304     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02557796     Document Type: Article

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