Hummingbirds have a greatly enlarged hippocampal formation

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 657-659

  Ward, Brian J ^a   Day, Lainy B ^b   Wilkening, Steven R ^b   Wylie, Douglas R ^c   Saucier, Deborah M ^d   Iwaniuk, Andrew N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Comparative method; Hippocampus; Hummingbirds; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BRAIN; MEMORY; NECTAR; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VOLUME;

APODIFORMES; AVES; PICIDAE; TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 84864482814     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.1180     Document Type: Article

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