When in doubt, chimpanzees rely on estimates of past reward amounts

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1655, 2009, Pages 309-314

  Beran, Michael J ^a   Evans, Theodore A ^a   Harris, Emily H ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees; Decision making; Estimation; Pan troglodytes; Quantity judgement; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DECISION MAKING; ESTIMATION METHOD; HOMINID; TESTING METHOD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HABITAT SELECTION; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 58149250390     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1027     Document Type: Article

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