Wild birds recognize individual humans: Experiments on magpies, Pica pica

Animal Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 817-825

  Lee, Won Young ^a   Lee, Sang im ^a,b   Choe, Jae Chun ^c   Jablonski, Piotr G ^a,d  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^d POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cognition; Individual recognition; Magpie; Pre exposure effect; Predation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; SONGBIRD; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PASSERIFORMES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

ANIMALIA; AVES; CORVIDAE; PICA PICA;

EID: 80255131376     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-011-0415-4     Document Type: Article

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