Hand preferences in Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus)

Laterality

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 143-157

  Schmitt, Vanessa ^a   Melchisedech, Sandra ^a   Hammerschmidt, Kurt ^a   Fischer, Julia ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HAND MOVEMENT; HANDEDNESS; MACACA; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MACACA; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 40149085404     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: 14640678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500701757532     Document Type: Article

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