Developmental and familial predictors of adult cognitive traits in the European starling

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 107, Issue , 2015, Pages 239-248

  Nettle, Daniel ^a   Andrews, Clare P ^a   Monaghan, Pat ^b   Brilot, Ben O ^a,c   Bedford, Thomas ^a   Gillespie, Robert ^b   Bateson, Melissa ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Developmental stress; Impulsivity; Intelligence; Learning; Starlings; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; BROOD SIZE; CHROMOSOME; COGNITION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; LEARNING; PASSERINE; POPULATION GENETICS;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

AVES; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 84942011516     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.07.002     Document Type: Article

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