Searching by Rules: Pigeons' (Columba livia) Landmark-Based Search According to Constant Bearing or Constant Distance

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 123-132

  Spetch, Marcia L ^a   Rust, Tiana B ^a   Kamil, Alan C ^b   Jones, Juli E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; VISION;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COLUMBIDAE; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VISION;

EID: 0242557657     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.117.2.123     Document Type: Article

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