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The what as well as the why of animal fun
1School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9JP, UK.
Current Biology : CB
|January 7, 2015
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.