Familiar and unfamiliar face recognition in crested macaques (Macaca nigra)

Royal Society Open Science

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Micheletta, Jérôme ^a   Whitehouse, Jamie ^a   Parr, Lisa A ^b,c   Marshman, Paul ^a   Engelhardt, Antje ^d,e   Waller, Bridget M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crested macaques; Dominance; Familiarity; Individual recognition; Matching to sample; Social bond

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958093780     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20545703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150109     Document Type: Article

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