Assessment and decision making in animals: a mechanistic model underlying behavioral flexibility can prevent ambiguity

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Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 569-576

  Blumstein, Daniel T ^a   Bouskila, Amos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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EID: 0030484427     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3545948     Document Type: Review

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