Search Image Formation in the Blue Jay ( Cyanocitta cristata )
- 22 June 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 204 (4399) , 1332-1333
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.204.4399.1332
Abstract
Blue jays trained to detect Catocala moths in slides were exposed to two types of slide series containing these moths: series of one species and series of two species intermixed. In one-species series, detection ability increased with successive encounters with one prey type. No similar effect occurred in two-species series. These results are a direct demonstration of a specific search image.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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