The Relationship Between Foraging, Learning Abilities and Neophobia in Two Species of Darwin's Finches

Ethology

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 135-146

  Tebbich, Sabine ^a   Stankewitz, Sophia ^b   Teschke, Irmgard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; PASSERINE;

CACTOSPIZA PALLIDA; CAMARHYNCHUS PARVULUS; FRINGILLIDAE;

EID: 84855346400     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.02001.x     Document Type: Article

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