Stereotypic route-tracing in experimentally caged songbirds correlates with general behavioural disinhibition

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 711-727

  Garner, Joseph P ^a   Mason, Georgia J ^b   Smith, Rebecca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALIA; PARUS; PARUS CAERULEUS; PARUS PALUSTRIS; PASSERI;

EID: 0038493360     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.2254     Document Type: Article

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