Flexible cue use in food-caching birds

Animal Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 419-426

  Ladage, Lara D ^a   Roth II, Timothy C ^a   Fox, Rebecca A ^a   Pravosudov, Vladimir V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cue use; Food caching; Mountain chickadees; Poecile gambeli; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PASSERIFORMES; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PARIDAE; PARUS GAMBELI; POECILE GAMBELI;

EID: 67349276387     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-008-0201-0     Document Type: Article

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