Spontaneous discrimination of small quantities: Shoaling preferences in angelfish (Pterophyllum scalare)

Animal Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 565-574

  Gómez Laplaza, Luis M ^a   Gerlai, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Angelfish; Quantity discrimination; Shoaling; Small numbers

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CICHLID; DECISION MAKING; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; POPULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CICHLIDS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); POPULATION; SIZE PERCEPTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; PTEROPHYLLUM SCALARE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79959266838     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-011-0392-7     Document Type: Article

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