Clark's nutcracker (Aves: Corvidae) spatial memory: Interference effects on cache recovery performance?

Ethology

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 554-565

  Bednekoff, Peter A ^a   Kamil, Alan C ^b   Balda, Russell P ^b  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CACHING; CLARK'S NUTCRACKER; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AVES; CORVIDAE; NUCIFRAGA; NUCIFRAGA COLUMBIANA;

EID: 0030836404     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1997.tb00167.x     Document Type: Article

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