Knower-guesser differentiation in ravens: Others' viewpoints matter

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1705, 2011, Pages 634-640

  Bugnyar, Thomas ^a,b  

^a Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Caching; Competitive food retrieval; Corvus corax; Knowledge attribution; Perspective; Raven

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CACHING; COGNITION; HUMAN EVOLUTION; PASSERINE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CORVIDA; CORVUS CORAX; PRIMATES;

EID: 79551633391     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1514     Document Type: Conference Paper

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