The what as well as the why of animal fun
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05/01/2015Metadata
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Abstract
Fun is functional: play is evolution's way of making sure animals acquire and perfect valuable skills in circumstances of relative safety. Yet precisely what animals find fun has seldom been examined for what it can potentially reveal about how they represent and think about the world.
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Byrne , R W 2015 , ' The what as well as the why of animal fun ' , Current Biology , vol. 25 , no. 1 , pp. R2-R4 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.09.008
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Current Biology
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Peer reviewed
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0960-9822Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. © 2014. Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Current Biology. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Current Biology, 25, 1, January 2015 DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.09.008
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