Monkeys recognize the faces of group mates in photographs

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 51, 2009, Pages 21539-21543

  Pokorny, Jennifer J ^a   De Waal, Frans B M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Individual discrimination; Oddity; Primate; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; GROUP DYNAMICS; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; CEBUS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA; PRIMATES;

EID: 76049129459     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0912174106     Document Type: Article

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