Preferential learning from non-affiliated individuals in jackdaws (Corvus monedula)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 148-155

  Schwab, Christine ^a,b   Bugnyar, Thomas ^a,c   Kotrschal, Kurt ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affiliation; Cognition; Corvus monedula; Jackdaw; Social learning

Indexed keywords

AFFILIATIVE BEHAVIOR; BIRD; COGNITION; FOOD; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; JUVENILE; LEARNING; PAIR BOND; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; SIBLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CROWS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; PAIR BOND; SIBLINGS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPACE PERCEPTION;

CORVUS MONEDULA;

EID: 53349166354     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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