Eye-Blink Behaviors in 71 Species of Primates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Tada, Hideoki ^a   Omori, Yasuko ^b   Hirokawa, Kumi ^c   Ohira, Hideki ^d   Tomonaga, Masaki ^e  

^a TOHOKU GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JIN AI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLINK DURATION; BLINK RATE; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIURNAL ANIMAL; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HABITAT; ISOLATED BLINK RATIO; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NOCTURNAL ANIMAL; NONHUMAN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; POPULATION SIZE; PRIMATE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; BLINKING; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; PEER GROUP; PRIMATES;

PRIMATES;

EID: 84878531864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066018     Document Type: Article

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