A comparative assessment of hand preference in captive red howler monkeys, Alouatta seniculusand yellow-breasted capuchin monkeys, Sapajus xanthosternos

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Sfar, Nasibah ^a   Mangalam, Madhur ^b   Kaumanns, Werner ^c   Singh, Mewa ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE   (India)

^c LTM Research and Conservation   (Germany)

^d JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALOUATTA; ALOUATTA SENICULUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CEBUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HANDEDNESS; HANGING; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIMATE; SAPAJUS XANTHOSTERNOS; SITTING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STANDING; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; HAND; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE;

ALOUATTA; ALOUATTA SENICULUS; CEBUS; CEBUS XANTHOSTERNOS;

ALOUATTA; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; MALE; PRIMATES;

EID: 84907495355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107838     Document Type: Article

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