Animal learning and memory: An integration of cognition and ecology

Zoology

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 321-327

  Healy, Susan D ^a   Jones, Catherine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive specialisation; Cognitive ecology; Spatial learning and memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA; FRINGILLIDAE; GALLUS GALLUS; GARCIA; PRIMATES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 0036991810     PISSN: 09442006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0944-2006-00071     Document Type: Conference Paper

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