Spontaneous social orienting and gaze following in ringtailed lemurs (Lemur catta)

Animal Cognition

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-20

  Shepherd, Stephen V ^a   Platt, Michael L ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSIMIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; LEMUR; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALIA; LEMUR CATTA; LEMURIDAE; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 36749053935     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-007-0083-6     Document Type: Article

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