Reverse lateralization of visual discriminative abilities in the European starling

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 783-788

  Templeton, Jennifer J ^a,b   Gonzalez, Diana P ^a,c  

^a MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KNOX COLLEGE   (United States)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIRD; EYE; VISUALIZATION;

AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA; GALLUS; GALLUS GALLUS; PASSERIFORMES; STURNIDAE; STURNUS; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 1842474491     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.04.011     Document Type: Article

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