Orangutan pantomime: Elaborating the message

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 627-630

  Russon, Anne ^a   Andrews, Kristin ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Communication; Elaboration; Gesture; Great ape; Orangutan; Pantomime

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE POPULATION; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; DATABASE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PRIMATE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ORANG UTAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICATION; PONGO;

HOMINIDAE; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 80051693908     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0564     Document Type: Article

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