Technical innovations drive the relationship between innovativeness and residual brain size in birds

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1001-1010

  Overington, Sarah E ^a   Morand Ferron, Julie ^b   Boogert, Neeltje J ^a   Lefebvre, Louis ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

behavioural flexibility innovation; cognition; comparative method; foraging; generalism; opportunism; tool use

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BODY SIZE; BRAIN; COGNITION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; SIZE EFFECT; TOOL USE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PRIMATES;

EID: 70349167983     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.06.033     Document Type: Article

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