Bonobos and chimpanzees infer the target of another's attention

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 345-353

  MacLean, Evan L ^a   Hare, Brian ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Bonobo; Chimpanzee; Gaze following; Pan paniscus; Pan troglodytes; Perspective taking; Social cognition; Theory of mind; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COGNITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HOMINID; VISUAL ANALYSIS; VOCALIZATION;

PAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 84856097483     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.10.026     Document Type: Article

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