Early development of gaze following into distant space in juvenile Greylag geese (Anser anser)

Animal Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 477-485

  Kehmeier, Sophia ^a,b   Schloegl, Christian ^a,c   Scheiber, Isabella B R ^a,c   Weiß, Brigitte M ^a,d  

^a Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle ^*  (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anser anser; Gaze following; Greylag geese; Ontogeny; Precocial development; Predator avoidance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GOOSE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ANIMALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; GEESE; MALE; VISION, OCULAR;

ANSER; ANSER ANSER; AVES; CORVUS CORAX; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79959249491     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-011-0381-x     Document Type: Article

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