Play behavioural tactics under space reduction: social challenges in bonobos, Pan paniscus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 469-476

  Tacconi, Giorgia ^a   Palagi, Elisabetta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

bonobo; locomotor play; Pan paniscus; play fighting; play flexibility; playful facial display; social challenge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AVOIDANCE REACTION; CAPTIVE POPULATION; FIGHTING; GROOMING; LOCOMOTION; PLAY; PRIMATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUALITY; SIGNAL; SPACE USE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; ZOO;

APENHEUL PRIMATE PARK; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; GELDERLAND; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; PAN PANISCUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 68349152781     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.06.004     Document Type: Article

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