Capuchin monkey tool use: Overview and implications

Evolutionary Anthropology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 171-178

  Ottoni, Eduardo B ^a,b   Izar, Patrícia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Institute of Psychology   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Behavioral traditions; Primate cognition; Social information transfer; Socially biased learning

Indexed keywords

CEBUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 53349156575     PISSN: 10601538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/evan.20185     Document Type: Review

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