Social learning in new Caledonian crows

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 206-219

  Holzhaider, Jennifer C ^a   Hunt, Gavin R ^a   Gray, Russell D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CROW; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMITATION; LEARNING; MALE; PANDANACEAE; SEASON; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TOOL USE; WILD ANIMAL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CROWS; FEMALE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; PANDANACEAE; SEASONS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77957000082     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/LB.38.3.206     Document Type: Article

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