Cognitive ecology of food hoarding: The evolution of spatial memory and the hippocampus

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 44, Issue , 2013, Pages 173-193

  Pravosudov, Vladimir V ^a   Roth, Timothy C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive specialization; Cache recovery; Climate; Environment; Evolution; Food hoarding; Hippocampus; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

FISH; FITNESS; FOOD; MEMORY; PHYLOGENETICS; SELECTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIALIZATION; SURVIVAL; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84888300933     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110512-135904     Document Type: Review

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