What counts for ‘counting’? Chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, respond appropriately to relevant and irrelevant information in a quantity judgment task

Nonhuman animals quantify all manner of things, and the way in which this is done is fairly well understood. However, little research has been conducted to determine how they know what is or is not relevant in the instances in which they quantify stimuli. We assessed how four chimpanzees chose betwe...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Animal behaviour 2013-05, Vol.85 (5), p.987-993
Hauptverfasser:	Beran, Michael J., McIntyre, Joseph M., Garland, Alexis, Evans, Theodore A.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animal behavior Animal cognition animals approximate number system Behavioral biology chimpanzee Comparative analysis containers enumeration Monkeys & apes Pan troglodytes quantity judgment transposition
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