Spatial orientation in Japanese quails (coturnix coturnix japonica)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Ruploh, Tim ^a   Kazek, Agnieszka ^b   Bischof, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTURNIX COTURNIX JAPONICA; FORAGING; GALLIFORMES; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; LANDMARK; LEARNING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; REWARD; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; COTURNIX; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COTURNIX; CUES; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 82855172139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028202     Document Type: Article

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