Strategies of spatial learning for food storing in scrub jays

Journal of Ethology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 181-187

  Watanabe, Shigeru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Food storing; Learning; Scrub jays; Spatial cognition; Visual cognition

Indexed keywords

APHELOCOMA; APHELOCOMA CALIFORNICA; CORVIDAE;

EID: 23944438142     PISSN: 02890771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10164-005-0150-x     Document Type: Article

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