title: The what as well as the why of animal fun.
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.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9JP, UK. Electronic address: rwb@st-andrews.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Richard W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Byrne
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D010988:Play and Playthings / Q000523:psychology*