Avian Cognition
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Avian Cognition
Author: Carel ten Cate
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2017-06-22
An overview of current research and experimental approaches in avian cognition and how this relates to other species.
Avian Cognition
Unlike any other book, Avian Cognition thoroughly examines avian intelligence, behavior, and individuality. Preferences, choices, motivation, and habits of species, flocks, and individual birds are discussed and compared. This book investigates who birds are and why they do what they do. Daily, seasonal, and play activities, creativity, reasoning a
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