Time's crooked arrow: Optimal foraging and rate-biased time perception

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 589-597

  Hills, Thomas T ^a   Adler, Frederick R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036425226     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.3070     Document Type: Article

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