Differences in the cognitive skills of bonobos and chimpanzees

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Herrmann, Esther ^a   Hare, Brian ^b   Call, Josep ^a   Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TEMPERAMENT;

PAN;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; FEMALE; MALE; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 77957893946     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012438     Document Type: Article

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