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Sexual differences in memory in shiny cowbirds

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Andrea Alejandra Astié, Alejandro Kacelnik, Juan Carlos Reboreda (1998). Sexual differences in memory in shiny cowbirds. Animal Cognition, 1(2), 77-82. https://doi.org/10.1007/s100710050011
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