Cognitive Ecology: Foraging in Hummingbirds as a Model System

Advances in the Study of Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue , 2003, Pages 325-359

  Healy, Susan D ^a   Andrew Hurly, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

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EID: 33745914900     PISSN: 00653454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-3454(03)01007-6     Document Type: Article

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