Chimpanzees are more skilful in competitive than in cooperative cognitive tasks

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 571-581

  Hare, Brian ^a,b   Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; SOCIOBIOLOGY;

PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 3042838577     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.11.011     Document Type: Article

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