Able-bodied wild chimpanzees imitate a motor procedure used by a disabled individual to overcome handicap

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Hobaiter, Catherine ^a   Byrne, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CHIMPANZEE; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; IMITATION; JUVENILE ANIMAL; LIANA SCRATCH TECHNIQUE; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; SCRATCHING; SOCIAL LEARNING; ANIMAL; LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY;

PAN;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 77957814300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011959     Document Type: Article

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