Unlearned appetite controls: Watersnakes (Nerodia) take smaller meals when they have the choice

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 304-310

  Andreadis, Paul T ^a,b   Burghardt, Gordon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b DENISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD DEPRIVATION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PREDATION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SNAKE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; APPETITE REGULATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD DEPRIVATION; FOOD PREFERENCES; MOTIVATION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SATIETY RESPONSE; SIZE PERCEPTION; SNAKES;

EID: 25644439059     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.119.3.304     Document Type: Article

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