Great apes use landmark cues over spatial relations to find hidden food

Animal Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 623-635

  Hribar, Alenka ^a,b   Call, Josep ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Landmark use; Spatial cognition; Spatial encoding; Spatial frames of reference; Spatial memory; Spatial relations

Indexed keywords

HOMINIDAE; PAN;

EID: 85027950995     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-011-0397-2     Document Type: Article

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