Chimpanzees are more skillful in competitive than in cooperative cognitive tasks
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A study is conducted to demonstrate a facilitative cognitive effect for competition in a single experimental paradigm. It is suggested that chimpanzee cognitive evolution is best understood in its socioecological context.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2004
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The ontogeny of gaze following in chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, and rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta
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Research is presented concerning the social-cognitive skills of gaze following in rhesus monkeys and in chimpanzees. The period of infancy during which gaze following skills are learnt is discussed.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2001
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Engineering cooperation in chimpanzees: tolerance constraints on cooperation
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A study on spontaneous cooperation in captive chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, based on tolerance acts is presented.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2006
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