Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) flexibly adjust their behaviour in order to maximize payoffs, not to conform to majorities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Van Leeuwen, Edwin J C ^a   Cronin, Katherine A ^a   Schütte, Sebastian ^b   Call, Josep ^b   Haun, Daniel B M ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84894236681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080945     Document Type: Article

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