Clark's nutcracker spatial memory: The importance of large, structural cues

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 102, Issue , 2014, Pages 12-17

  Bednekoff, Peter A ^a,b   Balda, Russell P ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caching; Corvid; Landmark; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; AVIFAUNA; CACHING; COGNITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; MEMORY; PASSERINE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HABITAT; HABITUATION; LABORATORY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCIFRAGA COLUMBIANA; PREDICTION; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AVES; CORVIDA; NUCIFRAGA; NUCIFRAGA COLUMBIANA;

CACHING; CORVID; LANDMARK; SPATIAL COGNITION;

ANIMALS; CUES; MEMORY; PASSERIFORMES; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84896708059     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2013.12.004     Document Type: Article

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