Kea (Nestor notabilis) consider spatial relationships between objects in the support problem

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 455-458

  Auersperg, Alice M I ^a,b   Gajdon, Gyula K ^a   Huber, Ludwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aves; Means end task; Physical cognition; Support problem

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PERCEPTION; PRIMATE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FOOD; MALE; NESTOR NOTABILIS; NONHUMAN; PARROT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AVES; NESTOR NOTABILIS; PAN; PRIMATES; PSITTACIDAE;

EID: 67749114383     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0114     Document Type: Article

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