Animal Cognition: Aesop's Fable Flies from Fiction to Fact

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 17, 2009, Pages

  Taylor, Alex H ^a   Gray, Russell D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CROW; ORANG UTAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; CROWS; PONGO; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 69949131691     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.055     Document Type: Short Survey

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