Chimpanzees fail to plan in an exchange task but succeed in a tool-using procedure

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-27

  Dufour, V ^a,b   Sterck, E H M ^b,c  

^a BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees; Cooperation; Exchange task; Planning; Tool use

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HOMINID; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIALISM;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOOL USE;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PROBLEM SOLVING; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; CORVIDA; PAN; PRIMATES;

EID: 46149116788     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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