Fixed-Ratio Schedule Performance of Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)

New Zealand Journal of Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 79-85

  Hudson, Dianne ^a   Foster, T Mary ^a   Temple, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

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