Goffin cockatoos wait for qualitative and quantitative gains but prefer 'better' to 'more'

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Auersperg, A M I ^a   Laumer, I B ^a   Bugnyar, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Avian cognition; Delay of gratification; Food exchange; Impulse control

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIRD; CACHING; COGNITION; FOOD CONSUMPTION; PRIMATE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COCKATOO; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; COCKATOOS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84878176428     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.1092     Document Type: Article

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