Delayed search for a concealed imprinted object in the domestic chick

Animal Cognition

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-24

  Vallortigara, Giorgio ^a   Regolin, Lucia ^b   Rigoni, Margherita ^b   Zanforlin, Mario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chick; Delayed response; Gallus gallus; Imprinting; Memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002519882     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710050003     Document Type: Article

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