Ravens, Corvus corax, differentiate between knowledgeable and ignorant competitors

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1573, 2005, Pages 1641-1646

  Bugnyar, Thomas ^a,b   Heinrich, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Corvus corax; Food caching; Knowledge attribution; Raven

Indexed keywords

CACHING; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); PASSERINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORVUS CORAX; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CORVUS CORAX;

EID: 26244435971     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3144     Document Type: Article

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