Animal Cognition: An Insect's Sense of Time?

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2006, Pages

  Skorupski, Peter ^a   Chittka, Lars ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEE; COGNITION; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33749252547     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.08.069     Document Type: Short Survey

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