Assessing olfactory performance in an old world primate, Macaca nemestrina

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 521-527

  Hübener, Fabienne ^a   Laska, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavioral Testing; Odor Learning; Olfactory Performance; Pigtail Macaques

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; LEARNING; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING;

EID: 0344110461     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(98)00099-7     Document Type: Article

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