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Thursday, 2 February 2012

Decision-making by great apes

Chimps, orangutans, go­ril­las and bono­bos cal­i­brate their de­ci­sions by tak­ing in­to ac­count the pos­si­ble re­wards and the role of chance.
Posted by Dr CLÉiRIGh at 07:04
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