Intertemporal choice in lemurs

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 121-127

  Stevens, Jeffrey R ^a,b   Mühlhoff, Nelly ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Intertemporal choice; Primate; Prosimian; Rate maximization; Temporal discounting

Indexed keywords

FEEDING ECOLOGY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; LIFE HISTORY; PRIMATE; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; BLACK AND WHITE RUFFED LEMUR; BLACK LEMUR; COGNITION; ECOLOGY; EULEMUR MACACO; FOOD PREFERENCE; INTERTEMPORAL CHOICE; LEMURIDAE; LIFE HISTORY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RED RUFFED LEMUR; TASK PERFORMANCE; VARECIA RUBRA; VARECIA VARIEGATA;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; LEMUR; REWARD; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; CERCOPITHECIDAE; EULEMUR MACACO; LEMUR; LEMURIDAE; PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI; VARECIA; VARECIA VARIEGATA;

EID: 84856369826     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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