From exploitation to cooperation: Social tool use in orang-utan mother-offspring dyads

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 100, Issue , 2015, Pages 126-134

  Völter, Christoph J ^a,b   Rossano, Federico ^a   Call, Josep ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Exploitation; Great apes; Orang utan; Primate cognition; Social tool use

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CONSPECIFIC; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PRIMATE; TOOL USE;

HOMINIDAE; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PONGO PYGMAEUS ABELII; PRIMATES;

EID: 84921407098     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.11.025     Document Type: Article

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