Travel routes and planning of visits to out-of-sight resources in wild chacma baboons, Papio ursinus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 257-266

  Noser, Rahel ^a   Byrne, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

chacma baboons; cognitive map; episodic memory; goal directed behaviour; Papio ursinus; travel routes

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GPS; PRIMATE; SPATIAL COGNITION; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; FICUS (ANGIOSPERM); PAPIO; PAPIO URSINUS;

EID: 33846463088     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.04.012     Document Type: Article

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