Memory for flowers in rufous hummingbirds: Location or local visual cues?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1149-1157

  Hurly, T Andrew ^b   Healy, Susan D ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMORY; RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD;

SELASPHORUS RUFUS;

EID: 0030442602     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0116     Document Type: Article

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