Forebrain size and innovation rate in European birds: Feeding, nesting and confounding variables

Behaviour

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1415-1429

  Nicolakakis, Nektaria ^a   Lefebvre, Louis ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0006467330     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853900502646     Document Type: Article

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