Chimpanzees' flexible targeted helping based on an understanding of conspecifics' goals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3588-3592

  Yamamoto, Shinya ^a   Humle, Tatyana ^b   Tanaka, Masayuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altruism; Behavioral flexibility; Empathy; Instrumental helping; Prosocial behavior

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; FEMALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TOOL USE;

ALTRUISM; ANIMALS; COMPREHENSION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GOALS; HELPING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; THEORY OF MIND; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR; VISION, OCULAR;

ANIMALIA; PAN;

EID: 84863229222     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1108517109     Document Type: Article

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