Population-level right-handedness for a coordinated bimanual task in naturalistic housed chimpanzees: Replication and extension in 114 animals from Zambia and Spain

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 281-290

  Llorente, Miquel ^a,b   Riba, David ^a,b   Palou, Laia ^c   Carrasco, Lara ^c   Mosquera, Marina ^b   Colell, Montserrat ^c   Feliu, Olga ^a  

^a Unitat de Recerca I Laboratori d'Etologia   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bimanual coordination; Chimpanzee handedness; Hand preferences; Intermediate environments; Replication

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CAPTIVE POPULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOMINID; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPAIN; TASK PERFORMANCE; ZAMBIA;

ANIMAL POPULATION GROUPS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPAIN; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; ZAMBIA;

SPAIN; ZAMBIA;

ANIMALIA; PAN; PRIMATES;

EID: 79251488133     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20895     Document Type: Article

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