Adult but not juvenile Barbary macaques spontaneously recognize group members from pictures

Animal Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 503-509

  Schell, Andrea ^a   Rieck, Kathrin ^a   Schell, Karina ^a   Hammerschmidt, Kurt ^a   Fischer, Julia ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barbary macaques; Face discrimination; Individual recognition; Ontogeny; Preferential looking

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FACE; FEMALE; MACACA; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; FACE; FEMALE; MACACA; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

ANIMALIA; HAPLORHINI; MACACA; MACACA SYLVANUS;

EID: 79959256401     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-011-0383-8     Document Type: Article

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