Innovative foraging behaviour in birds: What characterizes an innovator?

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 274-285

  Overington, Sarah E ^a   Cauchard, Laure ^b   Côté, Kimberly Ann ^a   Lefebvre, Louis ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carib grackle; Cognition; Exploration; Individual differences; Innovation; Neophobia; Problem solving; Quiscalus lugubris

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INNOVATION; MORPHOLOGY; MOVEMENT; PASSERINE; VIDEOGRAPHY; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NEOPHOBIA; NONHUMAN; QUISCALUS LUGUBRIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; CUES; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

AVES; QUISCALUS; QUISCALUS LUGUBRIS;

EID: 79960272228     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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