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Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) reassure others in distress

Contact directed by uninvolved bystanders toward others in distress, often termed consolation, is uncommon in the animal kingdom, thus far only demonstrated in the great apes, canines, and corvids. Whereas the typical agonistic context of such contact is relatively rare within natural elephant famil...

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Autores principales: Plotnik, Joshua M., de Waal, Frans B.M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3932735/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24688856
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.278