Choice and context: Testing a simple short-term choice rule

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-70

  Stephens, David W ^a   McLinn, Colleen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; THEORY;

ANIMALIA; CORVIDAE; CYANOCITTA CRISTATA;

EID: 0042312651     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2177     Document Type: Article

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