Magpies can use local cues to retrieve their food caches

Animal Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 235-243

  Feenders, Gesa ^a   Smulders, Tom V ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corvidae; Cue use; Food hoarding birds; Pica pica; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

AVES; CORVIDAE; PICA PICA;

EID: 79951767599     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-010-0357-2     Document Type: Article

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