A state-dependent sex difference in spatial memory in pinyon jays, Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus: mated females forget as predicted by natural history

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 401-411

  Dunlap, Aimee S ^a,b   Chen, Bonnie B ^a   Bednekoff, Peter A ^c   Greene, Tom M ^a   Balda, Russell P ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MEMORY; NESTING SUCCESS; PASSERINE; SPATIAL COGNITION;

CORVIDAE; GYMNORHINUS; GYMNORHINUS CYANOCEPHALUS;

EID: 33746584746     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.01.015     Document Type: Article

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