Chimpanzees help each other upon request

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Yamamoto, Shinya ^a   Humle, Tatyana ^a   Tanaka, Masayuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; COOPERATION; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TOOL USE;

PAN;

ALTRUISM; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 70449433247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007416     Document Type: Article

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