Contact with human facilities appears to enhance technical skills in wild vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops)

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 282-291

  Van De Waal, Erica ^a,b   Bshary, Redouan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Artificial fruit; Captivity nature comparison; Chlorocebus aethiops; Field experiments; Human 'enculturation'; Human impact; Social learning; Technical skill; Vervet monkeys

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CERCOPITHECUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; CERCOPITHECUS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; PRIMATES;

EID: 78650901931     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000322628     Document Type: Article

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