Mountain chickadees discriminate between potential cache pilferers and non-pilferers

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1630, 2008, Pages 55-61

  Pravosudov, Vladimir V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian cognition; Cache protection; Chickadee; Cognition; Food caching

Indexed keywords

CACHING; COGNITION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BIRD; CHICKADEE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CORVIDA; JUNCO HYEMALIS; PARIDAE; PARUS GAMBELI; POECILE GAMBELI; SITTA CANADENSIS;

EID: 36348961428     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1281     Document Type: Article

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