Memory for multiple cache locations and prey quantities in a food-hoarding songbird

Most animals can discriminate between pairs of numbers that are each less than four without training. However, North Island robins (Petroica longipes), a food hoarding songbird endemic to New Zealand, can discriminate between quantities of items as high as eight without training. Here we investigat...

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Main Authors: Nicola eArmstrong, Alexis eGarland, Kevin Chase Burns
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00584/full