Bonobos Share with Strangers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Tan, Jingzhi ^a   Hare, Brian ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FOOD; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ALTRUISM; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD; HELPING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTIVATION; PAN PANISCUS;

EID: 84871724693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051922     Document Type: Article

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