Three-dimensional spatial learning in hummingbirds

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 579-584

  Flores Abreu, I Nuri ^a   Hurly, T Andrew ^a   Healy, Susan D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Horizontal; Hummingbird; Orientation; Selasphorus rufus; Spatial cue; Spatial learning and memory; Vertical

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; FLOWER VISITING; LEARNING; MEMORY; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRAINING;

ANIMALIA; AVES; SELASPHORUS; SELASPHORUS RUFUS; TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 84875264614     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.12.019     Document Type: Article

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