Clark’s Nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) Flexibly Adapt Caching Behaviour to a Cooperative Context
Corvids recognize when their caches are at risk of being stolen by others and have developed strategies to protect these caches from pilferage. For instance, Clark’s nutcrackers will suppress the number of caches they make if being observed by a potential thief. However, cache protection has most of...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-10-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01643/full |