Exclusion in corvids: The performance of food-caching eurasian jays (garrulus glandarius)

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 428-435

  Shaw, Rachael C ^a   Plotnik, Joshua M ^a   Clayton, Nicola S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic cues; Corvid; Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius); Exclusion; Two way object choice

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; FOOD; HEARING; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; REWARD; SONGBIRD; TASK PERFORMANCE; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VISION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; FOOD; PASSERIFORMES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84890085470     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0032010     Document Type: Article

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