Social complexity predicts transitive reasoning in prosimian primates

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 479-486

  MacLean, Evan L ^a   Merritt, Dustin J ^a   Brannon, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognition; cognitive evolution; Eulemur mongoz; Lemur catta; mongoose lemur; primate; prosimian; ringtailed lemur; social intelligence; transitive inference

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COMPLEXITY; DIVERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; EVOLUTION; INFORMATION; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; CARNIVORA; EULEMUR MONGOZ; LEMUR; LEMUR CATTA; LEMURIDAE; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 46849092150     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.01.025     Document Type: Article

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