Brief communication: Hand preference for bimanual and unimanual feeding in captive gorillas: Extension in a second colony of apes

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 641-647

  Lambert, Megan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bimanual; handedness; hemispheric specialization; unimanual

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GORILLA; HAND GRIP; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REARING; RIGHT HANDEDNESS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GORILLA GORILLA; MALE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84863721239     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22095     Document Type: Article

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