Use of landmarks in three species of food-storing corvids

Ethology

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 361-377

  Gould Beierle, Kristy L ^a,b   Kamil, Alan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHELOCOMA; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS; AVES; CORVIDAE; GYMNORHINUS CYANOCEPHALUS; NUCIFRAGA; NUCIFRAGA COLUMBIANA; PINUS EDULIS;

EID: 0031807543     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1998.tb00075.x     Document Type: Article

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