Visual laterality in dolphins when looking at (un)familiar humans

Animal Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 303-308

  Thieltges, Hélène ^a   Lemasson, Alban ^a   Kuczaj, Stan ^b   Böye, Martin ^c   Blois Heulin, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c Planète Sauvage   (France)

Author keywords

Common bottlenose dolphin; Human animal familiarity; Perceptual laterality; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79951773091     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-010-0354-5     Document Type: Article

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