Novel object exploration in ravens (Corvus corax): Effects of social relationships

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 68-75

  Stöwe, Mareike ^a   Bugnyar, Thomas ^a,b   Loretto, Matthias Claudio ^a   Schloegl, Christian ^a   Range, Friederike ^b   Kotrschal, Kurt ^a,b  

^a KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND COGNITION RESEARCH   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Corvus corax; Neophobia; Social facilitation; Social relationship

Indexed keywords

BIRD; EXPLORATION; LEARNING; SIBLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; NEOPHOBIA; NONHUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING RELATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CROWS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

AVES; CORVUS CORAX;

EID: 33646858792     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.03.015     Document Type: Article

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