Domestic pigeons (Columba livia) discriminate between photographs of male and female pigeons

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 327-339

  Nakamura, Tamo ^a,c   Ito, Masato ^b   Croft, David B ^a   Westbrook, R Frederick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; SEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; ART; LEARNING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PIGEONS AND DOVES; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; PORTRAITS; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33947508191     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193196     Document Type: Article

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