Lateralized tool use in wild New Caledonian crows

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 327-332

  Rutledge, Robb ^a   Hunt, Gavin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; PASSERINE; TOOL USE;

AVES; CORVIDAE; CORVUS; CORVUS MONEDULOIDES; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1442314290     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.07.002     Document Type: Article

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