Influence of environment structure and food availability on the foraging behaviour of the laboratory rat

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 191-198

  Arcis, Vincent ^a   Desor, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Decision making; Differential exploitation; Environment structure; Food availability; Foraging trade offs; Predation risk

Indexed keywords

FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT STRUCTURE; OPTIMUM FORAGING THEORY; PREDATION RISK; RODENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DENSITY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LABORATORY; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREDATION RISK; RAT; SAFETY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0037473788     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(02)00122-5     Document Type: Article

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