Quantity discrimination in jungle crows, Corvus macrorhynchos

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 635-641

  Bogale, Bezawork Afework ^a,b   Kamata, Naoki ^a,b   Mioko, Katano ^b   Sugita, Shoei ^a,b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corvus macrorhynchos; Jungle crow; Numerical cognition; Quantity discrimination

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COGNITION; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALIA; CORVIDAE; CORVUS MACRORHYNCHOS;

EID: 80052778391     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.05.025     Document Type: Article

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