Memory of prey larders in golden orb-web spiders, Nephila clavipes (araneae: Nephilidae)

Behaviour

Volumn 150, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1345-1356

  Kolodziej, Robb C ^a   Höbel, Gerlinde ^a   Rodríguez, Rafael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive ecology; food hoarding; invertebrate; numerosity; orb weaver

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893124613     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539X-00003099     Document Type: Article

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