Laterality in the gestural communication of wild chimpanzees

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1288, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 9-16

  Hobaiter, Catherine ^a   Byrne, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Communication; Gesture; Handedness; Laterality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; FEMALE; GESTURE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; OBJECT MANIPULATION; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; UGANDA;

PAN;

EID: 84878837836     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12041     Document Type: Article

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