Focus on the essential: All great apes know when others are being attentive

Animal Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 433-439

  Tempelmann, Sebastian ^a,b,c   Kaminski, Juliane ^b   Liebal, Katja ^a,b,c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attentional state; Communication; Great apes; Referential communication; Requesting behaviour; Triadic communication

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GORILLA; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; ORANG UTAN; ORIENTATION; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GORILLA GORILLA; MALE; ORIENTATION; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

HOMINIDAE; PAN; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 79955054713     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-011-0378-5     Document Type: Article

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