"Constructive" enumeration by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)on a computerized task

Animal Cognition

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 81-89

  Beran, Michael J ^a   Rumbaugh, Duane M ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analogue magnitude estimation; Chimpanzees; Counting; Numbers; Pan troglodytes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037671455     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710100098     Document Type: Article

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