Kinship and Familiarity as Factors Affecting Social Transfer of Food Preferences in Adult Mongolian Gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus)

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 243-251

  Valsecchi, Paola ^a   Choleris, Elena ^a   Moles, Anna ^a   Guo, Cong ^a,b   Mainardi, Marisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; GERBIL; LEARNING; MALE; ODOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIBLING RELATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASTE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; GERBILLINAE; MALE; PAIR BOND; SIBLING RELATIONS; SMELL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TASTE; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0030238617     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.110.3.243     Document Type: Article

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