Irrational choices in hummingbird foraging behaviour

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 587-596

  Bateson, Melissa ^a   Healy, Susan D ^b   Hurly, T Andrew ^c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; AVES; SELASPHORUS; SELASPHORUS RUFUS; TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 0036351430     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2001.1925     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Female choice selects for extreme tail length in a widow bird
2. Rate currencies and the foraging starling: The fallacy of the averages revisited
3. The energetic costs of alternative rate currencies in the foraging starling
4. Energy budgets and risk-sensitive foraging in starlings
5. Risk-sensitivity: Ambient temperature affects foraging choice
6. Does beak colour affect female preference in zebra finches?
7. The robustness of the asymmetrically dominated effect: Buying frames, phantom alternatives, and in-store purchases
8. Specialization by territorial hummingbirds on experimentally enriched patches of flowers: Energetic profitability and learning
9. Female choice in sage grouse: The roles of attraction and active comparison
10. Natural selection and context-dependent values
11. Market boundaries and product choice: Illustrating attraction and substitution effects
12. Adding asymmetrically dominated alternatives: Violations of regularity and the similarity hypothesis
13. Context-dependent, risk-sensitive foraging preferences in wild rufous hummingbirds
14. Central place foraging in starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). I. Patch residence time
15. The choice axiom after twenty years
16. Partial preferences and foraging
17. Tests of an equivalence rule for fixed and variable reinforcer delays
18. Transitivity as a property of choice
19. Peahens prefer peacocks with elaborate trains
20. Decision-making in animals
21. Risk sensitivity in starlings: Variability in food amount and food delay
22. Hummingbirds' nectar concentration preferences at low volume: The importance of time scale
23. Similarity between stimuli: An experimental test of the Luce and Restle choice models
24. Contextual and procedural determinants of partner selection: Of asymmetric dominance and prominence
25. The advantage model of choice: A comparative theory of evaluation and choice under risk
26. Intransitivity of preferences in honey bees: Support for 'comparative' evaluation of foraging options
27. Importance of energy costs in central place foraging by hummingbirds
28. Intransitivity of preferences
29. Context-dependent preferences
30. Background context and decision making in hoarding gray jays
31. Intransitive preferences in hoarding gray jays (Perisoreus canadensis)
32. Distinguishing among models of contextually induced preference reversals
33. Tests of the ratio rule in categorisation