Wild, free-living hummingbirds can learn what happened, where and in which context

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 89, Issue , 2014, Pages 185-189

  Jelbert, Sarah A ^a,b   Hurly, T Andrew ^c   Marshall, Rachael E S ^a   Healy, Susan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hummingbird; Scene memory; Sequence; Timing; What where which

Indexed keywords

BIRD; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LEARNING; VISION; WILD POPULATION;

EID: 84893451593     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.12.028     Document Type: Article

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