What Is Challenging About Tool Use? The Capuchin's Perspective

Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Visalberghi, Elisabetta ^a   Fragaszy, Dorothy ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Actions; Animal intelligence; Capuchin monkeys; Exploration; Nonhuman primates; Tool use

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920701386     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195377804.003.0028     Document Type: Chapter

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