The social transmission of spatial information in homing pigeons

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 715-719

  De Perera, Theresa Burt ^a,b   Guilford, Tim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARENA; AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 0033104524     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.1024     Document Type: Article

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