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Primate Play Behavior

Primate Play Behavior is a systematic ethological construct that characterizes the structured, often repetitive, and contextually flexible motor and social activities exhibited by non-human primates, distinguished by their functional role in the development of cognitive, motor, and socio-emotional competencies critical to survival and social integration.

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309

Does play matter? Functional and evolutionary aspects of animal and human play

Peter K. Smith · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 1982 · 424 citations

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Play-fighting differs from serious fighting in both target of attack and tactics of fighting in the laboratory ratRattus norvegicus

Sergio M. Pellis, Vivien C. Pellis · Aggressive Behavior · 1987 · 331 citations

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Play and aggression: A study of rhesus monkeys

Marc Bekoff · Animal Behaviour · 1978 · 330 citations

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Fetal Testosterone Predicts Sexually Differentiated Childhood Behavior in Girls and in Boys

Bonnie Auyeung, Simon Baron‐Cohen, Emma Ashwin et al. · Psychological Science · 2009 · 314 citations · Full text

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Social Play and Play-Soliciting by Infant Canids

Marc Bekoff · American Zoologist · 1974 · 310 citations · Full text

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Authors

537

  1. EP
    Elisabetta Palagi

    University of Pisa, Italy

    24 publications · 1.9K citations

    22

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  2. SM
    Sergio M. Pellis

    University of Lethbridge, Canada

    15 publications · 1K citations

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  3. VC
    Vivien C. Pellis

    University of Lethbridge, Canada

    10 publications · 688 citations

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  4. GC
    Giada Cordoni

    University of Pisa, Italy

    10 publications · 620 citations

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  5. SJ
    Stephen J. Suomi

    Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, United States

    7 publications · 305 citations

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Institutions

278

  1. University of Pisa

    Pisa, Italy

    21 h-index

    54 publications

    4K citations

  2. Kyoto University

    Kyoto, Japan

    14 h-index

    22 publications

    1K citations

  3. University of Lethbridge

    Lethbridge, Canada

    13 h-index

    43 publications

    1.8K citations

  4. University of St Andrews

    St Andrews, United Kingdom

    11 h-index

    16 publications

    725 citations

  5. University of Portsmouth

    Portsmouth, United Kingdom

    9 h-index

    22 publications

    2K citations

  6. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    9 h-index

    14 publications

    2.3K citations

  7. Emory University

    Atlanta, United States

    9 h-index

    17 publications

    542 citations

  8. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    8 h-index

    7 publications

    298 citations

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  1. Primates

    29 publications · 1.1K citations

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  2. Animal Behaviour

    20 publications · 2.1K citations

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  3. American Journal of Primatology

    23 publications · 891 citations

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  4. Journal of comparative psychology

    14 publications · 716 citations

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  5. Behaviour

    16 publications · 871 citations

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