Foraging Cognition in Nonhuman Primates

Primate Neuroethology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zuberbühler, Klaus ^a   Janmaat, Karline ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive mapping; Cognitive skills; Information processing problems; Nonhuman primates; Primate foraging behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920646333     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195326598.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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