Worms under cover: Relationships between performance in learning tasks and personality in great tits (Parus major)

Animal Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 763-770

  Amy, Mathieu ^a,b   van Oers, Kees ^a   Naguib, Marc ^a,c  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Exploration; Great tits; Individual variation; Learning; Personality traits; Selection line

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MALE; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REWARD; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MALE; PASSERIFORMES; PERSONALITY; REWARD;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 84865440321     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-012-0500-3     Document Type: Article

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