Tool use in fishes

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 105-115

  Brown, Culum ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Birds; Cognition; Fishes; Primates; Tool use

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LIMB; PERCIFORM; PIONEER SPECIES; PRIMATE; SONGBIRD; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; TOOL USE; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CORVIDA; MAMMALIA; PISCES; PRIMATES;

EID: 84855338398     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: 14672979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2011.00451.x     Document Type: Review

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