Learning outdoors: Male lizards show flexible spatial learning under semi-natural conditions

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 946-948

  Noble, Daniel W A ^a   Carazo, Pau ^b,c   Whiting, Martin J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Cognition; Reptile; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ASSORTATIVE MATING; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FITNESS; LEARNING; LIZARD; MALE BEHAVIOR; RANGE EXPANSION; SPATIAL COGNITION; WILD POPULATION;

EID: 84869771312     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0813     Document Type: Article

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