Non-random walks in monkeys and humans

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 70, 2012, Pages 842-847

  Boyer, Denis ^a   Crofoot, Margaret C ^b,c,d   Walsh, Peter D ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e VaccinApe   (United States)

Author keywords

Capuchin monkeys; Home range; Human mobility; Memory; Movement ecology; Scaling laws

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; SCALING LAWS;

CAPUCHIN MONKEYS; CELL PHONE; ENVIRONMENTAL HETEROGENEITY; HOME RANGE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN MOBILITY; MOBILITY PATTERN; RANDOM WALK; RECURRENT PATTERNS; SELF-ATTRACTING WALKS; SPATIAL COGNITION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

ARTICLE; CEBUS; COGNITION; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; MEMORY; MOBILE PHONE; NONHUMAN; WALKING;

CEBUS;

EID: 84858081770     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0582     Document Type: Article

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