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To Beg, or Not to Beg? That Is the Question: Mangabeys Modify Their Production of Requesting Gestures in Response to Human’s Attentional States

BACKGROUND: Although gestural communication is widespread in primates, few studies focused on the cognitive processes underlying gestures produced by monkeys. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: The present study asked whether red-capped mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus) trained to produce visually based...

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Autores principales: Maille, Audrey, Engelhart, Lucie, Bourjade, Marie, Blois-Heulin, Catherine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3399851/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22815969
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041197