Modifying the object-choice task: Is the way you look important for ravens?

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 61-65

  Schloegl, Christian ^a,b   Kotrschal, Kurt ^a,b   Bugnyar, Thomas ^a,c  

^a Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle ^*  (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gaze; Modification; Object choice task; Raven

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; SONGBIRD; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRIEDMAN TEST; GAZE; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAVEN; SONGBIRD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CROWS; CUES; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CORVUS CORAX; PAN;

EID: 37049009750     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.06.002     Document Type: Article

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