Ravens attribute visual access to unseen competitors

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Bugnyar, Thomas ^a   Reber, Stephan A ^a   Buckner, Cameron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; PERCEPTION; PRIMATE; PSYCHOLOGY; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

BEHAVIOR; COMMON RAVEN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; SOUND; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CORVUS; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORY OF MIND; VISION;

CORVIDA; CORVUS CORAX; PAN;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CROWS; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; THEORY OF MIND; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84957604299     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10506     Document Type: Article

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