Social complexity and transitive inference in corvids

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 479-487

  Bond, Alan B ^a   Kamil, Alan C ^a   Balda, Russell P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COGNITION; GROUP BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; APHELOCOMA CALIFORNICA; CORVIDA; CORVIDAE; GYMNORHINUS CYANOCEPHALUS; PINUS EDULIS;

EID: 0038138156     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2101     Document Type: Article

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