Testing social learning in a wild mountain parrot, the kea (Nestor notabilis)

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 62-71

  Gajdon, Gyula K ^a   Fijn, Natasha ^a   Huber, Ludwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; PARROT; SOCIAL LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

NESTOR NOTABILIS;

EID: 2342452510     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/bf03196007     Document Type: Article

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