What counts for 'counting'? Chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, respond appropriately to relevant and irrelevant information in a quantity judgment task

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 987-993

  Beran, Michael J ^a   McIntyre, Joseph M ^a   Garland, Alexis ^b   Evans, Theodore A ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Approximate number system; Chimpanzee; Enumeration; Pan troglodytes; Quantity judgment; Transposition

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; FOOD INTAKE; HOMINID; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK;

ANIMALIA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 84877590762     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.02.022     Document Type: Article

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