Sophisticated Euclidean maps in forest chimpanzees

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1195-1201

  Normand, Emmanuelle ^a,b   Boesch, Christophe ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

chimpanzee; Euclidean map; Pan troglodytes verus; spatial orientation; topological map

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MAP; MEMORY; MOVEMENT; NATIONAL PARK; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE; TOPOLOGY; TROPICAL FOREST;

AFRICA; COTE D'IVOIRE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TAI NATIONAL PARK; WEST AFRICA;

EUCLIDIA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES VERUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 64549133369     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.01.025     Document Type: Article

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