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Food-storing birds: adaptive specialization in brain and behaviour?
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Among the passerine birds, species that store food have an enlarged hippocampal region (dorso-medial cortex), relative to brain and body size, when compared with the non-storers. The volume of one of the major afferent-efferent pathways (the septo-hippocampal pathway) is also greater in food storing species. This specialization of brain structure is discussed in relation to behavioural studies in which the spatial memory of storing and non-storing species has been compared.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Krebs, J. R.
- Affiliations
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Krebs, John Richard
- Venue
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Published
- 1990-08-29
- Volume
- 329
- Issue
- 1253
- Pages
- 153-160
- ISSN
- 0962-8436 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-2970
- OpenAlex
- W2160395554
- Cited by
- 157
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 0.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Avian ecology and behavior
- Keywords
- Passeriformes, hippocampus, brain size, septohippocampal pathway, spatial memory
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Physiological, Animals, Birds, Brain, Feeding Behavior, Hippocampus, Memory, Species Specificity
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