From carrion-eaters to bathers' bags plunderers: How Black Vultures (Coragyps atratus) could have found that plastic bags may contain food

Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 617-620

  Sazima, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Carcasses; Learning; Packed refuse; Plastic bags; Refuse dumps

Indexed keywords

CARRION; LEARNING; RAPTOR;

CORAGYPS; CORAGYPS ATRATUS;

EID: 51849124315     PISSN: 01035657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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