Animal consciousness

Journal of Consciousness Studies

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 5-33

  Beshkar, Majid ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Birds; Brain; Cephalopods; Communication; Insects; Mammals; Mirror self recognition; Tools

Indexed keywords

EID: 41449085695     PISSN: 13558250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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