Memory and foraging theory: Chimpanzee utilization of optimality heuristics in the rank-order recovery of hidden foods

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 795-803

  Sayers, Ken ^a   Menzel, Charles R ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Evolutionary ecology; Handling time; Movement ecology; Prey encounter; Primate cognition

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOMINID; MEMORY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES; PRUNUS DULCIS;

EID: 84866939234     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.06.034     Document Type: Article

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