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References on animal play

  • Mathilde Tahar
  • 18 août 2024
  • 2 min de lecture

Bateson, P., & Martin, P. (2013). Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Bekoff, M., & Byers, J. A. (1998). Animal Play: Evolutionary, Comparative and Ecological Perspectives. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.

Burghardt, G. M. (2015). Creativity, Play, and the Pace of Evolution. In A. B. Kaufman & J.C. Kaufman (Eds.), Animal Creativity and Innovation (pp. 129–161). Elsevier.

Burghardt, G.M. (2005) The Genesis of Animal Play: Testing the Limits. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Fagen, R. (1981). Animal play behavior. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Fagen, R., & Fagen, J. (2004). Juvenile survival and benefits of play behaviour in brown bears, Ursus arctos. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 6(89). 

Fagen, R., & Fagen, J. (2009). Play behaviour and multi-year juvenile survival in free-ranging brown bears, Ursus arctos. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 11, 1–15.

Jones, B. L., & Kuczaj Ii, S. A. (2014). Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) Novel Bubble Helix Play Behavior. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2(2), 206.

Kuczaj, S. A., II, & Eskelinen, H. C. (2014). Why do dolphins play?. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 1(2), 113-127.

Lyn, H., Greenfield, P., & Savage-Rumbaugh, S. (2006). The development of representational play in chimpanzees and bonobos: Evolutionary implications, pretense, and the role of interspecies communication. Cognitive Development, 21(3), 199–213.

Montgomery, S. H. (2014). The relationship between play, brain growth and behavioural flexibility in primates. Animal Behaviour, 90, 281–286.

Paulos, R. D., Trone, M., & Kuczaj II, S. A. (2010). Play in wild and captive cetaceans. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 23(701).

Pellis, S. M., Pellis, V. C., & Himmler, B. T. (2014). How Play Makes for a More Adaptable Brain: A comparative and neural perspective. American Journal of Play, 7(1), 73–98.

Smith, P. K. (1982). Does play matter? Functional and evolutionary aspects of animal and human play. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 5, 139-184.

Špinka, M., Newberry, R.C., & Bekoff, M. (2001). Mammalian Play: Training for the Unexpected. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 76(2), 141–168.





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