Vision, touch and object manipulation in senegal parrots Poicephalus senegalus

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1725, 2011, Pages 3687-3693

  Demery, Zoe P ^a   Chappell, Jackie ^a   Martin, Graham R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bill tip organ; Exploration; Extractive foraging; Psittacines; Tactile cues; Visual field

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BIRD; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; SENSORY SYSTEM; TOPOGRAPHY;

AVES; POICEPHALUS SENEGALUS; PSITTACIDAE; PSITTACIFORMES;

EID: 80052605958     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0374     Document Type: Article

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