One-trial spatial learning: Wild hummingbirds relocate a reward after a single visit

Animal Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 631-637

  Flores Abreu, I Nuri ^a   Hurly, T Andrew ^b   Healy, Susan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beacon; Landmarks; Selasphorus rufus; Single trial; Spatial recognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIRD; DEPTH PERCEPTION; LEARNING; MALE; RECOGNITION; REWARD;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; LEARNING; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REWARD; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; AVES; SELASPHORUS RUFUS; TROCHILIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84862628100     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-012-0491-0     Document Type: Article

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