Chimpanzees' (pan troglodytes) strategic helping in a collaborative task

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Melis, Alicia P ^a,b   Tomasello, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees; Cognition; Collaboration; Helping

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HELPING BEHAVIOR; MUTUALISM; PRIMATE; TOOL USE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; FEMALE; MALE; MOTIVATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOOL USE;

ANIMALS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874123792     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0009     Document Type: Article

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