Contagious yawning in chimpanzees

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2004, Pages

  Anderson, James R ^a   Myowa Yamakoshi, Masako ^b   Matsuzawa, Tetsuro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHIGA PREFECTURE   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees; Contagious yawning; Development; Empathy; Self awareness; Videotape

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; IMITATION; PRIMATE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; MOUTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; VIDEORECORDING; YAWNING;

PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 17044411349     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0224     Document Type: Article

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