Adult Cleaner Wrasse Outperform Capuchin Monkeys, Chimpanzees and Orang-utans in a Complex Foraging Task Derived from Cleaner - Client Reef Fish Cooperation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Salwiczek, Lucie H ^a   Prétôt, Laurent ^b,c   Demarta, Lanila ^b   Proctor, Darby ^c   Essler, Jennifer ^c   Pinto, Ana I ^b   Wismer, Sharon ^b,e   Stoinski, Tara ^d   Brosnan, Sarah F ^c   Bshary, Redouan ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ZOO ATLANTA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CEBUS; CHIMPANZEE; CLEANER WRASSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPHEMERAL SPECIES; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD; JUVENILE; LEARNING; LEARNING TEST; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; NONHUMAN; OPTIMAL FORAGING; ORANG UTAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REWARD; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CEBUS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CORAL REEFS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FISHES; LEARNING; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; CEBUS; PAN; PRIMATES;

EID: 84869745588     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049068     Document Type: Article

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