An evolutionary perspective on caching by corvids

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1585, 2006, Pages 417-423

  De Kort, Selvino R ^a   Clayton, Nicola S ^a  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive specialization; Corvid; Food hoarding; Hippocampus; Phylogeny; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; CACHING; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; MEMORY; PASSERINE; PHYLOGENETICS; RECONSTRUCTION; RELATEDNESS;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROW; EVOLUTION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD;

CORVIDA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 33646700760     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3350     Document Type: Article

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