The effect of competition on choice by pigeons: Foraging rate, resource availability and learning

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 277-285

  Plowright, C M S ^a   Redmond, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Choice; Competition; Group foraging; Learning; Pigeon

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPETITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PIGEON;

EID: 0030462851     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(96)00036-8     Document Type: Article

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