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Transfer of a discrimination by pigeons (Columba livia) between pictured locations and the represented environments

P D Cole1, W K Honig

  • 1Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Journal of Comparative Psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983)
|June 1, 1994
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