Flexible use of spatial cues in the southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans)

Animal Cognition

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 203-209

  Gibbs, Sasha E B ^a   Lea, Stephen E G ^a,b   Jacobs, Lucia F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision; Landmark; Navigation; Sciuridae; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVALUATION; MALE; ORIENTATION; SCIURIDAE;

ANIMALS; MALE; ORIENTATION; SCIURIDAE; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GLAUCOMYS VOLANS; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 33947507422     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-006-0059-y     Document Type: Article

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