Big brains are not enough: Performance of three parrot species in the trap-tube paradigm

Animal Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 143-149

  Liedtke, Jannis ^a   Werdenich, Dagmar ^b   Gajdon, Gyula K ^b,c   Huber, Ludwig ^b   Wanker, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ara chloroptera; Behavioural inhibition; Cacatua sulphurea; Comparative cognition; General intelligence; Nestor notabilis

Indexed keywords

ARA CHLOROPTERUS; AVES; CACATUA SULPHUREA; CORVIDA; HOMINIDAE; NESTOR NOTABILIS; PRIMATES; PSITTACIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78650744277     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-010-0347-4     Document Type: Article

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