Free-ranging macaque mothers exaggerate tool-using behavior when observed by offspring

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Masataka, Nobuo ^a   Koda, Hiroki ^a   Urasopon, Nontakorn ^a,b   Watanabe, Kunio ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ubon Rajathanee University   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL FLOSS; LEARNING; MACACA; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; THAILAND; TOOL USE; VIDEORECORDING; ANIMAL; FEMALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA FASCICULARIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; LEARNING; MACACA; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHERS; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 62849117104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004768     Document Type: Article

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