Social facilitation of eating novel food in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella): Input provided by group members and responses affected in the observer

Animal Cognition

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 297-303

  Addessi, Elsa ^a   Visalberghi, Elisabetta ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cebus paella; Response to novel foods; Social facilitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342480288     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710100113     Document Type: Article

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