Brainpower boost for birds in large groups

Andrew Whiten ()

Nature, 2018, vol. 554, issue 7692, 303-304

Abstract: Whether intelligence is selected for in species that have a complex social life is debated and hard to test. Cognitive performance and associated reproductive success are now linked to group size in wild magpies.

Keywords: Animal behaviour; Neuroscience; Evolution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01487-3 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:554:y:2018:i:7692:d:10.1038_d41586-018-01487-3

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/d41586-018-01487-3

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().