The bottlenosed dolphin's (Tursiops truncatus) understanding of gestures as symbolic representations of its body parts

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 250-264

  Herman, Louis M ^a   Matus, David S ^a   Herman, Elia Y K ^a   Ivancic, Marina ^a   Pack, Adam A ^a  

^a Kewalo Basin Mar Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOLPHIN; FEMALE; GESTURE; NONHUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALIA; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 0035743750     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03192891     Document Type: Article

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