Food-specific spatial memory biases in an omnivorous bird

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 245-248

  Sulikowski, Danielle ^a   Burke, Darren ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive adaptations; Spatial memory; Win shift

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIRD; COGNITION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NECTAR; NECTARIVORY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MANORINA MELANOCEPHALA; NONHUMAN; OMNIVORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; APPETITE; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOOD; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA; MANORINA MELANOCEPHALA; MELIPHAGIDAE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FOOD; MEMORY; PASSERIFORMES; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 38449099842     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0122     Document Type: Article

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