Aversion to violation of expectations of food distribution: The role of social tolerance and relative dominance in seven primate species

Behaviour

Volumn 149, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 345-368

  Amici, Federica ^a,b,c,d   Call, Josep ^a   Aureli, Filippo ^b,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^d Research Group Behavioural Biology   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

capuchin monkeys; comparative cognition; great apes; long tailed macaques; social tolerance; spider monkeys

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ATELES GEOFFROYI; ATELES SP.; CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; MACACA; MACACA FASCICULARIS; PAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 84861655717     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853912X637833     Document Type: Article

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