Onset and early use of gestural communication in nonhuman great apes

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 102-113

  Schneider, Christel ^a,b,c   Call, Josep ^a   Liebal, Katja ^a,b,c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bonobo; Chimpanzee; Gesture; Gorilla; Onset; Orangutan

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; PRIMATE; SENSORY SYSTEM; SIGNALING; VISUAL CUE;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GESTURE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOMINID; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ZOO ANIMAL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; FEMALE; GESTURES; HOMINIDAE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; HOMINIDAE; PAN; PAN PANISCUS; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 84855970685     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.21011     Document Type: Article

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