Conflict, Cooperation, and Cognition in the Common Raven

Advances in the Study of Behavior

Volumn 43, Issue , 2011, Pages 189-237

  Heinrich, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Communal roosts; Competition; Conflict; Cooperation; Culture; Food caching; Insight; Instinct; Intelligence; Learning; Neophilia; Neophobia; Ravens; Recruitment; Sharing; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955960404     PISSN: 00653454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-380896-7.00004-6     Document Type: Book

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