Fine-tuning of social play in juvenile lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 433-445

  Palagi, Elisabetta ^a   Antonacci, Daniela ^a   Cordoni, Giada ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cognitive skills; Fine tuning; Gorilla gorilla gorilla; High density conditions; Play roughness; Play signals; Play partner preference; Prefeeding tension; Social play; Western lowland gorillas

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; FEMALE; GORILLA; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PLAY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ESCAPE REACTION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GORILLA GORILLA; INTELLIGENCE; INTENTION; MALE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPACE PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA; PRIMATES;

EID: 34248575543     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20219     Document Type: Article

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