Context-dependent foraging decisions in rufous hummingbirds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1521, 2003, Pages 1271-1276

  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

Asymmetrically dominated decoy; Context dependent choice; Currency; Decision making; Foraging; Rationality

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DECISION MAKING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; DECISION MAKING; FLOWER; FORAGING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; SELASPHORUS; SELASPHORUS RUFUS; TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 0038237011     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2365     Document Type: Article

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