Clark's nutcrackers Nucifraga columbiana remember the size of their cached seeds

Ethology

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 451-461

  Möller, Andrea ^a   Pavlick, Bruce ^a   Hile, Arla G ^b   Balda, Russell P ^a,b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; CACHING; FOOD SUPPLY; MEMORY; SEED SIZE;

AVES; NUCIFRAGA; NUCIFRAGA COLUMBIANA;

EID: 0034983516     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2001.00679.x     Document Type: Article

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