Food-caching western scrub-jays keep track of who was watching when

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5780, 2006, Pages 1662-1665

  Dally, Joanna M ^a,b   Emery, Nathan J ^a   Clayton, Nicola S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; PROTECTION;

APHELOCOMA CALIFORNICA; CACHING EVENTS; FOOD-CACHING WESTERN SCRUB-JAYS; TACTICS;

FOOD ADDITIVES;

BIRD; CACHING; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; FOOD STORAGE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; APHELOCOMA CALIFORNICA; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD STORAGE; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL LIFE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; FEMALE; FOOD; MALE; MEMORY; PASSERIFORMES;

APHELOCOMA; APHELOCOMA CALIFORNICA;

EID: 33745181142     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1126539     Document Type: Article

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25. N.S.C. received grants from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Clare College, and the University of Cambridge. N.J.E. was funded by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. J.M.D. received financial support from Clare College, the University of Cambridge, the Sir Richard Stapeley Educational Trust and the Sefton Educational Trust. We thank T. Dickinson, N. Davies, D. Byrne, S. de Kort, C. Rutte, N. Humphrey, C. Teufel, A. Seed, D. Alexis, A. Miller, and H. Prior for comments and discussion; S. Stevens and S. de Kort for allowing reference to their data; and D. Alexis, C. Teufel, and A. Seed for acting as observers. We are indebted to B. Brown for his statistical expertise.