Starlings' preferences for predictable and unpredictable delays to food

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1129-1142

  Bateson, Melissa ^a   Kacelnik, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; STARLING;

EID: 0031150185     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0388     Document Type: Article

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