Ravens, Corvus corax, follow gaze direction of humans around obstacles

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1546, 2004, Pages 1331-1336

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Corvus corax; Gaze following; Raven; Visual perspective taking

Indexed keywords

PRIMATE; VISION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORVUS CORAX; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; GAZE; HEAD MOVEMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CORVUS; CORVUS CORAX; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 3042844431     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2738     Document Type: Article

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