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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2012-12-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00584/full |