Working and scrounging by zebra finches in an operant task

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 263-269

  Biondolillo, Kris ^a   Stamp, Cliff ^a   Woods, Jamison ^a   Smith, Rebecca ^a  

^a ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Operant conditioning; Producing; Scrounging; Zebra finches

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0030891708     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(96)00763-2     Document Type: Article

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