Discrimination and recognition of photographs of places by homing pigeons

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 27-38

  Dawkins, Marian Stamp ^a   Guilford, Tim ^a   Braithwaite, Victoria A ^b   Krebs, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrimination learning; Geographical location; Homing pigeons; Photograph; Picture to object correspondence

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GEOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PIGEON; RECOGNITION; TRAINING; WRITING;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA;

EID: 0029978767     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(95)00013-5     Document Type: Article

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