Memory in coal tits: An alternative model

Biometrics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 660-662

  Ridout, Martin S ^a  

^a EAST MALLING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Food storing in birds; Negative hypergeometric distribution; Random search; Urn model

Indexed keywords

FOOD STORING IN BIRD; HYPERGEOMETRIC; NEGATIVE HYPERGEOMETRIC DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM SEARCHES; SIMPLE++; URN MODELS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; DATA ANALYSIS; FOOD STORAGE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEMORY; MODEL; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 0032970030     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.1999.00660.x     Document Type: Article

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