The seed-storing corvid Clark's nutcracker learns geometric relationships among landmarks

Nature

Volumn 390, Issue 6657, 1997, Pages 276-279

  Kamil, Alan C ^a   Jones, Juli E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLARK'S NUTCRACKER; LEARNING BEHAVIOUR; SPATIAL PATTERN;

ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

NUCIFRAGA COLUMBIANA;

EID: 0030830846     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/36840     Document Type: Article

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