Individual and sex differences in learning abilities of ravens

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 100-106

  Range, F ^a   Bugnyar, T ^a   Schlogl C ^a   Kotrschal, K ^a  

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

Author keywords

Acquisition; Corvus corax; Personality; Raven; Reversal; Simple learning task

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIRD; LEARNING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROW; FEMALE; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PERSONALITY; POSITION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CROWS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

CORVUS CORAX;

EID: 33646859456     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.04.002     Document Type: Article

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