Bonobos Respond to Distress in Others: Consolation across the Age Spectrum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Clay, Zanna ^a   de Waal, Frans B M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONFLICT; CONSOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GROUP DYNAMICS; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAN PANISCUS; REARING; RECONCILIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STRESS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CONGO; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; OBSERVATION; PAN PANISCUS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84873858621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055206     Document Type: Article

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