Spatial encoding in mountain chickadees: Features overshadow geometry

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 314-317

  Gray, Emily R ^a   Bloomfield, Laurie L ^a   Ferrey, Anne ^a   Spetch, Marcia L ^a   Sturdy, Christopher B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Geometry; Mountain chickadees; Spatial orientation

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; ORIENTATION; PASSERINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALIA; PARIDAE; PARUS GAMBELI; POECILE GAMBELI;

EID: 25444527235     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0347     Document Type: Article

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