Evidence suggesting that desire-state attribution may govern food sharing in Eurasian jays

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4123-4128

  Ostojić, Ljerka ^a   Shaw, Rachael C ^a   Cheke, Lucy G ^a   Clayton, Nicola S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Corvid; Specific satiety; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; EURASIAN JAY; FEEDING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD SHARING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SATIETY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FOOD; MALE; PASSERIFORMES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84874617969     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1209926110     Document Type: Article

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