Evidence for emulation in chimpanzees in social settings using the floating peanut task

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Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Tennie, Claudio ^a   Call, Josep ^a   Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EMULATION; FEMALE; IMITATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PEANUT; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; PAN;

ANIMALS; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; PAN TROGLODYTES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 77956289140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010544     Document Type: Article

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