Learning about food: Starlings, skinner boxes, and earthworms

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 181-192

  Dall, Sasha R X ^a   Cuthill, Innes C ^b   Cook, Nikalas ^b   Morphet, Matt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Operant behavior; Optimal foraging; Patchiness; Prey distribution; Reinforcement schedules; Spatial aggregation; Sturnus vulgaris

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001284198     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.1997.67-181     Document Type: Article

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