Movement and memory: Different cognitive strategies are used to search for resources with different natural distributions

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 621-631

  Sulikowski, Danielle ^a,b   Burke, Darren ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Foraging; Function; Mechanism; Resource distribution; Search strategy; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIRD; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INVERTEBRATE; MEMORY; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; SPATIAL COGNITION; VULNERABILITY;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA; MANORINA MELANOCEPHALA;

EID: 79952701270     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-010-1063-4     Document Type: Article

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