Sequential Tool Use in Great Apes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Martin Ordas, Gema ^a,b   Schumacher, Lena ^a   Call, Josep ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Center on Autobiographical Memory Research   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOOL USE;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOOD; HOMINIDAE; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

AVES; CORVIDAE; HOMINIDAE; PAN;

EID: 84871568246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052074     Document Type: Article

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