Odour and colour as cues for taste-avoidance learning in domestic chicks

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1241-1250

  Roper, Timothy J ^a   Marples, Nicola M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; CINCHONA PUBESCENS; GALLUS GALLUS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PRUNUS DULCIS;

EID: 0031172808     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0384     Document Type: Article

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