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Avian cognition /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cate, Carel ten (Editor), Healy, Sue (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Birds > Psychology.
Birds > Behavior.
Cognition in animals.
Birds.
Cognition.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : avian cognition : why and what?
  • Spatial cognition in birds
  • Spatial cognition and ecology : hummingbirds as a case study
  • Food storing and memory
  • Avian cognition and the evolution of warning signals
  • Social learning and innovation
  • Solving foraging problems : top-down and bottom-up perspectives on the role of cognition
  • Objects and space in an avian brain
  • Physical cognition and tool use in birds
  • Avian numerical cognition : a review and brief comparisons to non-avian species
  • Mechanisms of perceptual categorization in birds
  • Relational concept learning in birds
  • The linguistic abilities of birds
  • Avian vocal perception : bioacoustics and perceptual mechanisms
  • Sing me something smart : does song signal cognition?
  • Avian social relations, social cognition and cooperation.