The Right Time to Happen: Play Developmental Divergence in the Two Pan Species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Palagi, Elisabetta ^a,b   Cordoni, Giada ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; FEMALE; FIGHTING; INFANCY; JUVENILE; JUVENILITY; MALE; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MOOD; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLAY; PLAY DEVELOPMENTAL DIVERGENCE; SEXUAL MATURITY; SKILL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOLITARY PLAY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PAN;

EID: 84871602329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052767     Document Type: Article

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