Categorization and discrimination of "chick-a-dee" calls by wild-caught and hand-reared chickadees

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 166-176

  Bloomfield, Laurie L ^a   Farrell, Tara M ^a   Sturdy, Christopher B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Categorization; Chickadee; Crossfostering; Operant conditioning; Songbirds

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; CALLING BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; MEMORY; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; CLASSIFICATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SONGBIRDS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AVES; PARIDAE; PARUS ATRICAPILLUS; PARUS GAMBELI;

EID: 38949106230     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

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