Age-dependent use of local and global landmarks during escape: Experiments using Columbian ground squirrels

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 276-282

  Nesterova, Anna P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Columbian ground squirrel; Landmark based navigation; Ontogeny; Spatial memory; Spermophilus columbianus

Indexed keywords

AGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; MOVEMENT; ONTOGENY; RODENT; SPACE USE; SPATIAL COGNITION;

ARTICLE; BURROWING SPECIES; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; NONHUMAN; RELIABILITY; SPERMOPHILUS COLUMBIANUS; SQUIRREL; SURVIVAL;

AGING; ANIMALS; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; SCIURIDAE;

ANIMALIA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS COLUMBIANUS;

EID: 34249693104     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.03.001     Document Type: Article

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