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The Development of Representational Play in Chimpanzees and Bonobos: Evolutionary Implications, Pretense, and the Role of Interspecies Communication
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Lyn, Heidi; Greenfield, Patricia; Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue – Cognitive Development, 2006
This research investigates the development of symbolic or representational play in two species of the genus "Pan", bonobos ("Pan paniscus") and chimpanzees ("Pan troglodytes"). The participants varied not only by species, but also as to whether they had become proficient in communicating with humans via a set of arbitrary visual symbols, called…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Cognitive Development, Stimuli, Primatology