Summation by asian elephants (Elephas maximus)

Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 50-56

  Irie, Naoko ^a   Hasegawa, Toshikazu ^b  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elephants; Numerical cognition; Relative quantity judgment; Summation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865408511     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2076328X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/bs2020050     Document Type: Article

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