Urban mockingbirds quickly learn to identify individual humans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 8959-8962

  Levey, Douglas J ^a   Londoño, Gustavo A ^a,b   Ungvari Martin, Judit ^a,b   Hiersoux, Monique R ^a,b   Jankowski, Jill E ^a,b   Poulsen, John R ^a   Stracey, Christine M ^a,b   Robinson, Scott K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual recognition; Nest defense; Nest predation; Urban ecology; Urban wildlife

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; FLIGHT; LEARNING; MOCKINGBIRD; NEST PREDATION; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; THREAT; URBAN AREA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HUMANS; LEARNING; PASSERIFORMES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MIMUS POLYGLOTTOS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 67049095591     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811422106     Document Type: Article

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