Hippocampal volume is related to complexity of nesting habitat in Leach's storm-petrel, a nocturnal Procellariiform seabird

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 271-276

  Abbott, Marsha L ^a   Walsh, Carolyn J ^a   Storey, Anne E ^a   Stenhouse, Ian J ^a   Harley, Carolyn W ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birds; Fulmaris glacialis; Hippocampal complex; Hippocampus; Leach's storm petrel; Northern fulmar; Oceanodroma leucorhoa; Procellariiformes; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032816905     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000006598     Document Type: Article

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