Bonobos protect and console friends and kin

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Palagi, Elisabetta ^a,b   Norscia, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONSOLATION; CONSOLATION HYPOTHESIS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PAN PANISCUS; RELATIONSHIP REPAIR OR SUBSTITUTE FOR RECONCILIATION HYPOTHESIS; SELF PROTECTION HYPOTHESIS; VICTIM PROTECTION HYPOTHESIS;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EMPATHY; FAMILY; PAN PANISCUS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84892418685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079290     Document Type: Article

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