Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus) quantify split solid objects

Animal Cognition

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-10

  Cacchione, Trix ^a   Hrubesch, Christine ^a,b   Call, Josep ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Cohesiveness and continuity; Comparative cognition; Core knowledge; Object representation

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; MALE; NEWBORN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; COGNITION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

HOMINIDAE; PAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 84871932994     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-012-0545-3     Document Type: Article

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