The performance of ravens on simple discrimination tasks: A preliminary study

Acta Ethologica

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 34-41

  Range, Friederike ^a,b   Bugnyar, Thomas ^a   Kotrschal, Kurt ^a  

^a KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND COGNITION RESEARCH   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Corvids; Discrimination learning; Raven

Indexed keywords

CORVIDA; CORVUS CORAX; PRIMATES;

EID: 41049104668     PISSN: 08739749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10211-008-0039-0     Document Type: Article

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