Animal Cognition: Rooks Team up to Solve a Problem

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Bugnyar, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; COOPERATION; CROW; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CROWS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 45249103718     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.04.057     Document Type: Short Survey

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