Bonobos voluntarily share their own food with others

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Hare, Brian ^a   Kwetuenda, Suzy ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary and Les Amis des Bonobos du Congo ^*  (Congo)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; FOOD; LETTER; PAN PANISCUS; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FOOD; PAN PANISCUS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

PAN; PAN PANISCUS;

EID: 77649294959     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.12.038     Document Type: Letter

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