The what as well as the why of animal fun

dc.contributor.author	Byrne, R.W.
dc.date.accessioned	2016-01-05T10:06:43Z
dc.date.available	2016-01-05T10:06:43Z
dc.date.issued	2015-01-05
dc.identifier	163419460
dc.identifier	657c443b-4200-4a38-bfb6-f38983a7dcf0
dc.identifier	84920367452
dc.identifier	000347409900002
dc.identifier.citation	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	en
dc.identifier.issn	0960-9822
dc.identifier.other	ORCID: /0000-0001-9862-9373/work/60630585
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10023/7953
dc.description	Date of Acceptance:	en
dc.description.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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dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.ispartof	Current Biology	en
dc.subject	QL Zoology	en
dc.subject	BF Psychology	en
dc.subject	T-NDAS	en
dc.subject.lcc	QL	en
dc.subject.lcc	BF	en
dc.title	The what as well as the why of animal fun	en
dc.type	Journal article	en
dc.contributor.institution	University of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscience	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.cub.2014.09.008
dc.description.status	Peer reviewed	en
dc.date.embargoedUntil	2016-01-05