"Right-Trunkers" and "Left-Trunkers": Side Preferences of Trunk Movements in Wild Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus)

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 371-379

  Martin, Franziska ^a   Niemitz, Carsten ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; ELEPHANT; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ELEPHANTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MOVEMENT; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0346249694     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.117.4.371     Document Type: Article

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