Spontaneous discrimination of food quantities in the jungle crow, Corvus macrorhynchos

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 94, Issue , 2014, Pages 73-78

  Bogale, Bezawork Afework ^a   Aoyama, Masato ^a   Sugita, Shoei ^a  

^a UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corvus macrorhynchos; Jungle crow; Numerical magnitude; Object file system; Quantity; Spontaneous discrimination

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIRD; FOOD PREFERENCE; LEARNING; TRAINING;

EID: 84903376082     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.05.012     Document Type: Article

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