Cleaner Wrasses Keep Track of the 'When' and 'What' in a Foraging Task

Ethology

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 939-948

  Salwiczek, Lucie H ^a   Bshary, Redouan ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEANING BEHAVIOR; ECTOPARASITE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PERCIFORM; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; LABRIDAE; LABROIDES DIMIDIATUS; MAMMALIA; PISCES;

EID: 80053915041     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01959.x     Document Type: Article

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