Cold-Blooded Cognition: Reptilian Cognitive Abilities

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn 9780199738182, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wilkinson, Anna ^a   Huber, Ludwig ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Amniote; Lizard; Reptile; Social cognition; Spatial cognition; Tortoise; Turtle; Visual cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872410759     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199738182.013.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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