Understanding the functional properties of tools: Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) attend to tool features differently

Animal Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 577-590

  Sabbatini, Gloria ^a   Truppa, Valentina ^a   Hribar, Alenka ^b   Gambetta, Barbara ^a,c   Call, Josep ^b   Visalberghi, Elisabetta ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Functional features; Primates; Relational rules; Tool use; Visual feedback

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CEBUS; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; TOOL USE;

ANIMALS; CEBUS; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

EID: 84862617509     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-012-0486-x     Document Type: Article

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