Elephants know when they need a helping trunk in a cooperative task

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 5116-5121

  Plotnik, Joshua M ^a,c   Lair, Richard ^b   Suphachoksahakun, Wirot ^b   De Waal, Frans B M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FOREST INDUSTRY ORGANIZATION   (Thailand)

^c UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal behavior; Comparative cognition; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COOPERATION; ELEPHANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ELEPHANTS; FEMALE; MALE; PRIMATES;

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANTIDAE; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

EID: 79953218067     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1101765108     Document Type: Article

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