Discrimination of Face-Like Patterns in the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 335-343

  Dungl, Eveline ^a,b   Schratter, Dagmar ^b   Huber, Ludwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Tiergarten Schonbrunn   (Austria)

Author keywords

facial masks; giant panda; individual recognition; intraspecific communication; visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BEAR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; MALE; MARRIAGE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; MALE; MARRIAGE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; URSIDAE;

EID: 56349167653     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.122.4.335     Document Type: Article

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