How abnormal is the behaviour of captive, zoo-living chimpanzees?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Birkett, Lucy P ^a   Newton Fisher, Nicholas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; MALE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; ZOO ANIMAL; ANIMAL; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALIA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; PAN TROGLODYTES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959275321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020101     Document Type: Article

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