The economics of getting high: Decisions made by common gulls dropping cockles to open them

Behaviour

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 783-807

  Norris, Ken ^a   Freeman, Adrian ^a   Vincent, Julian F V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0034377402     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853900502349     Document Type: Article

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