Field observations of time-place behaviour in scavenging birds

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-88

  Wilkie, Donald M ^a   Carr, Jason A R ^a   Siegenthaler, Amy ^a   Lenger, Birgit ^a   Liu, Michael ^a   Kwok, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anticipation; Anticipatory flocking; Scavenging birds; Time place behaviour

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; BIRD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; SPATIAL MEMORY; TIME;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

MEMORY; SCAVENGING BIRD; SPATIAL MEMORY; TIME-PLACE BEHAVIOUR;

EID: 0031414781     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(96)00026-5     Document Type: Article

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