Brains, tools, innovation and biogeography in crows and ravens

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Jønsson, Knud A ^a   Fabre, Pierre Henri ^a   Irestedt, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Brain; Cognition; Crow; Systematics; Tool use

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; ARCHIPELAGO; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BRAIN; COGNITION; COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; EARTH; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOMINID; MIOCENE; PALEARCTIC REGION; PASSERINE; PHYLOGENY; SUBSPECIES; TAXONOMY;

AFRICA; AUSTRALASIA; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; NORTH AMERICA;

AVES; CORVIDAE; CORVUS; HOMINIDAE; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN; CROW; DNA SEQUENCE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOOL USE;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN; CROWS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; ISLANDS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84861472986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-72     Document Type: Article

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