What observer rats don't learn about foods from demonstrator rats

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 316-322

  Galef Jr , Bennett G ^a   Whiskin, Elaine E ^a   Horn, Christopher S ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EID: 0344563540     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199730     Document Type: Article

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