Tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) show understanding of human attentional states when requesting food held by a human

Animal Cognition

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 87-92

  Hattori, Yuko ^a,b   Kuroshima, Hika ^a   Fujita, Kazuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attention; Eye gaze; Non human primates; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

CEBIDAE; CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA; PRIMATES;

EID: 72449160650     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-009-0248-6     Document Type: Article

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