Bonobos extract meaning from call sequences

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Clay, Zanna ^a,b   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b TWYCROSS ZOO   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONOBOS; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD QUALITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PAN PANISCUS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PAN PANISCUS;

EID: 79955699567     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018786     Document Type: Article

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