Taxonomic counts of cognition in the wild

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 631-633

  Lefebvre, Louis ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain size; General intelligence; Innovation rate; Social learning; Tactical deception; Tool use

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIRD; BRAIN; COGNITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; INNOVATION; LEARNING; PRIMATE; SIZE; TAXONOMY; TOOL USE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITION; LEARNING; REVIEW; TOOL USE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; LEARNING; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

AVES; PRIMATES;

EID: 80051697176     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0556     Document Type: Review

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