Captive gibbons (Hylobatidae) use different referential cues in an object-choice task: insights into lesser ape cognition and manual laterality

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5348" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5348</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5348" target="_blank" >10.7717/peerj.5348</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Captive gibbons (Hylobatidae) use different referential cues in an object-choice task: insights into lesser ape cognition and manual laterality

Original language description

Background. Utilization of visual referential cues by non-human primates is a subject of constant scientific interest. However, only few primate species, mostly great apes, have been studied thoroughly in that regard, rendering the understanding of phylogenetic influences on the underlying cognitive patterns difficult. Methods. We tested six species of captive gibbons in an object-choice task (n = 11) for their ability to interpret two different pointing gestures, a combination of body orientation and gaze direction as well as glancing as referential cues. Hand preferences were tested in the object-choice task and in a birnanual tube task (n = 18). Results. We found positive responses to all signals except for the glancing cue at the individual as well as at the group level. The gibbons success rates partially exceed results reported for great apes in comparable tests and appear to be similarly influenced by prior exposure to human communicative cues. Hand preferences exhibited by the gibbons

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10614 - Behavioral sciences biology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PeerJ

ISSN

2167-8359

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

AUG2018

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

1-27

UT code for WoS article

000440836400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85054930339