Discrimination and categorization of photographs of natural objects by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Animal Cognition

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 201-211

  Tanaka, Masayuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees; Cognition; Object categorization; Photographs; Primates

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041464325     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710100106     Document Type: Article

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