Interaction between animal personality and animal cognition

Current Zoology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 491-498

  Carere, Claudio ^a   Locurto, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b Center for Interdisciplinary Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal personality; Cognition; Coping style

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 79958262774     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/57.4.491     Document Type: Article

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