The role of mothers in the development of complex skills in chimpanzees

Building Babies: Primate Development in Proximate and Ultimate Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 303-318

  Lonsdorf, Elizabeth V ^a,b  

^a LINCOLN PARK ZOO   (United States)

^b FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraging behavior; Infant development; Pan; Social learning; Tool use

Indexed keywords

EID: 85032270442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4060-4_14     Document Type: Chapter

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