The etho-cebus project: Stone-tool use by wild capuchin monkeys

Tool Use in Animals Cognition and Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 203-222

  Visalberghi, Elisabetta ^a   Fragaszy, Dorothy ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^b Psychology Department University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

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EID: 84924093079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511894800.013     Document Type: Chapter

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