Adaptive numerical competency in a food-hoarding songbird

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1649, 2008, Pages 2373-2379

  Hunt, Simon ^a   Low, Jason ^a   Burns, K C ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Animal cognition; Behaviour; Food hoarding; New Zealand; Number sense

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; NUMERICAL RESPONSE; PREY PREFERENCE; SENSORY SYSTEM; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD; HABITUAL ADAPTATION; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PETROICA AUSTRALIS; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONGBIRD;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERI; PETROICA AUSTRALIS;

EID: 51449118858     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0702     Document Type: Article

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