Ravens notice dominance reversals among conspecifics within and outside their social group

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Massen, Jorg J M ^a   Pašukonis, Andrius ^a   Schmidt, Judith ^a   Bugnyar, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUP BEHAVIOR; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANCE; EXPECTANCY; FEMALE; GROUP DYNAMICS; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM SOCIAL GROUP; RAVEN; STRESS; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CROW; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CROWS; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FEMALE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 84899091071     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4679     Document Type: Article

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