Differences in play can illuminate differences in affiliation: A comparative study on chimpanzees and gorillas

Strong Competition Does Not Always Predict Play Asymmetry: The Case of South American Sea Lions (Otaria flavescens)

(2017) Clara Llamazares-Martín et al.   ETHOLOGY

Social play in wild brown bears of varying age-sex class

(2016) Melanie Clapham et al.   ACTA ETHOLOGICA

Aggression and hierarchical steepness inhibit social play in adult wolves

(2016) Giada Cordoni et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Unveiling the “secret” of play in dogs (Canis lupus familiaris): Asymmetry and signals.

(2016) Giada Cordoni et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Elevated activity in adult mountain gorillas is related to consumption of bamboo shoots

(2016) Cyril C. Grueter et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Play-solicitation gestures in chimpanzees in the wild: flexible adjustment to social circumstances and individual matrices

(2016) Marlen Fröhlich et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Causes, mechanisms, and consequences of contest competition among female mountain gorillas in Rwanda

(2015) Cyril C. Grueter et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Rough-and-tumble play as a window on animal communication

(2015) Elisabetta Palagi et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Play in the Peter Pan ape

(2015) Isabel Behncke   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Rapid mimicry and emotional contagion in domestic dogs

(2015) Elisabetta Palagi et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Locomotor play drives motor skill acquisition at the expense of growth: A life history trade-off

(2015) A. Berghanel et al.   Science Advances

Relaxed open mouth as a playful signal in wild ring-tailed lemurs

(2014) Elisabetta Palagi et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Emotionality and intentionality in bonobo playful communication

(2014) Elisa Demuru et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Female competition in chimpanzees

(2013) A. E. Pusey et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Dynamics of the temporal structures of playing clusters and cliques among wild chimpanzees in Mahale Mountains National Park

(2013) Masaki Shimada   PRIMATES

Social tolerance and adult play in macaque societies: a comparison with different human cultures

(2012) Francesca Ciani et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The Right Time to Happen: Play Developmental Divergence in the Two Pan Species

(2012) Elisabetta Palagi et al.   PLoS One

Ontogenetic Trajectories of Chimpanzee Social Play: Similarities with Humans

(2011) Giada Cordoni et al.   PLoS One

A brief guide to model selection, multimodel inference and model averaging in behavioural ecology using Akaike’s information criterion

(2010) Matthew R. E. Symonds et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Bonobos Exhibit Delayed Development of Social Behavior and Cognition Relative to Chimpanzees

(2010) Victoria Wobber et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Post-conflict Social Events in Wild Mountain Gorillas (Mammalia, Hominoidea). I. Social Interactions between Opponents

(2010) David P. Watts   ETHOLOGY

Stranger to Familiar: Wild Strepsirhines Manage Xenophobia by Playing

(2010) Daniela Antonacci et al.   PLoS One

When play is a family business: adult play, hierarchy, and possible stress reduction in common marmosets

(2010) Ivan Norscia et al.   PRIMATES

Consolation as possible expression of sympathetic concern among chimpanzees

(2010) T. Romero et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Play behavioural tactics under space reduction: social challenges in bonobos, Pan paniscus

(2009) Giorgia Tacconi et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Can you believe my eyes? The importance of interobserver reliability statistics in observations of animal behaviour

(2009) Allison B. Kaufman et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The social brain hypothesis and its implications for social evolution

(2009) R.I.M. Dunbar   ANNALS OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

Play and social dynamics in a captive herd of gelada baboons (Theropithecus gelada)

(2009) Giada Mancini et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Population dynamics of the Bwindi mountain gorillas

(2009) Martha M Robbins et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) change their activity patterns in response to frugivory

(2008) Shelly Masi et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Physical maturation, life-history classes and age estimates of free-ranging western gorillas-insights from Mbeli Bai, Republic of Congo

(2008) Thomas Breuer et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Partner preferences and asymmetries in social play among domestic dog, Canis lupus familiaris, littermates

(2008) Camille Ward et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Sociality of the dispersing sex: the nature of social bonds in West African female chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes

(2008) Julia Lehmann et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The social role of touch in humans and primates: Behavioural function and neurobiological mechanisms

(2008) R.I.M. Dunbar   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Long-term reciprocation of grooming in wild West African chimpanzees

(2008) C. M Gomes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Influence of male morphology on male mating status and behavior during interunit encounters in western lowland gorillas

(2007) Damien Caillaud et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Sharing the motivation to play: the use of signals in adult bonobos

(2007) E. Palagi   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The development of feeding behaviour in wild western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)

(2007) Angela Nowell et al.   BEHAVIOUR