Keeping track of time: Evidence for episodic-like memory in great apes

Animal Cognition

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 331-340

  Martin Ordas, Gema ^a,b   Haun, Daniel ^a   Colmenares, Fernando ^b   Call, Josep ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Age; Episodic like memory; Great apes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HOMINID; MALE; ORANG UTAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HOMINIDAE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

APHELOCOMA; CORVIDA; HOMINIDAE; PAN; PONGO PYGMAEUS; RODENTIA; VITACEAE;

EID: 77349112672     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-009-0282-4     Document Type: Article

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