The role of differential reinforcement in predator avoidance learning

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 61, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 87-94

  Griffin, Andrea S ^a   Evans, Christopher S ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Learning; Marsupial; Predation

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; LEARNING; MARSUPIAL; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOX; MALE; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR; REINFORCEMENT;

CANIDAE; FELIS; FELIS CATUS; MACROPODIDAE; MACROPUS; MACROPUS EUGENII; METATHERIA; VERTEBRATA; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 0037469876     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(02)00169-9     Document Type: Article

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