Hooded crows solve a transitive inference problem cognitively

Animal Welfare

Volumn 10, Issue SUPPL., 2001, Pages

  Lazareva, O F ^a,b   Smirnova, A A ^b   Zorina, Z A ^b   Rayevsky, V V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Hooded crow; Transitive inference; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345880675     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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