Careful cachers and prying pilferers: Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) limit auditory information available to competitors

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1752, 2013, Pages

  Shaw, Rachael C ^a   Clayton, Nicola S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory information; Cache protection; Eurasian jay; Garrulus glandarius; Perception attribution; Pilfering

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; CACHING; CONSPECIFIC; PERCEPTION; SONGBIRD; SUBSTRATE; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 84870791268     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2238     Document Type: Article

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