Elephant psychology: What we know and what we would like to know

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 177-181

  Irie, Naoko ^a   Hasegawa, Toshikazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Causal reasoning; Comparative psychology; Elephants; Memory; Mirror self recognition; Numerical cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349306374     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: 14685884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5884.2009.00404.x     Document Type: Review

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