Stranger to familiar: Wild strepsirhines manage xenophobia by playing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Antonacci, Daniela ^a   Norscia, Ivan ^a   Palagi, Elisabetta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; GROOMING; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PHOBIA; PLAY; PROSIMIAN; SOCIAL INTERACTION; WILD ANIMAL; XENOPHOBIA; ANIMAL; FEAR; LEMURIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; RECREATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; LEMURIDAE; PRIMATES; PROPITHECUS; PROPITHECUS VERREAUXI;

ANIMALS; FEAR; LEMUR; MALE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 78049320329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013218     Document Type: Article

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