Individual-level lateralization in the asymmetrical gaits of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Implications for hand preference and skeletal asymmetry?

Behaviour

Volumn 148, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1419-1441

  Arcadi, A C ^a   Wallauer, W ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b The Jane Goodall Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

asymmetrical gaits; buttress drumming; chimpanzee; handedness; laterality

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; MAMMALIA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 84860239905     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853911X616062     Document Type: Article

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