To Beg, or Not to Beg? That Is the Question: Mangabeys Modify Their Production of Requesting Gestures in Response to Human’s Attentional States

Audrey Maille; Lucie Engelhart; Marie Bourjade; Catherine Blois-Heulin

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041197

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To Beg, or Not to Beg? That Is the Question: Mangabeys Modify Their Production of Requesting Gestures in Response to Human’s Attentional States

Audrey Maille ,

* E-mail: audrey.maille@univ-rennes1.fr

Affiliation UMR 6552 Ethos «Ethologie Animale et Humaine», University of Rennes 1 - CNRS, Station biologique, Paimpont, France
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Lucie Engelhart,

Affiliation UMR 6552 Ethos «Ethologie Animale et Humaine», University of Rennes 1 - CNRS, Station biologique, Paimpont, France
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Marie Bourjade,

Affiliation Research Center in the Psychology of Cognition, Language and Emotion, Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France
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Catherine Blois-Heulin

Affiliation UMR 6552 Ethos «Ethologie Animale et Humaine», University of Rennes 1 - CNRS, Station biologique, Paimpont, France
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To Beg, or Not to Beg? That Is the Question: Mangabeys Modify Their Production of Requesting Gestures in Response to Human’s Attentional States

Audrey Maille,
Lucie Engelhart,
Marie Bourjade,
Catherine Blois-Heulin

Published: July 18, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041197

About the Authors

Audrey Maille

* E-mail: audrey.maille@univ-rennes1.fr

Affiliation UMR 6552 Ethos «Ethologie Animale et Humaine», University of Rennes 1 - CNRS, Station biologique, Paimpont, France

Lucie Engelhart

Affiliation UMR 6552 Ethos «Ethologie Animale et Humaine», University of Rennes 1 - CNRS, Station biologique, Paimpont, France

Marie Bourjade

Affiliation Research Center in the Psychology of Cognition, Language and Emotion, Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France

Catherine Blois-Heulin

Affiliation UMR 6552 Ethos «Ethologie Animale et Humaine», University of Rennes 1 - CNRS, Station biologique, Paimpont, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM LE CBH. Performed the experiments: LE. Analyzed the data: LE AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM MB CBH. Wrote the paper: AM MB CBH.

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