Olfactory conditioning experiments in a food-searching passerine bird in semi-natural conditions

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 264-270

  Mennerat, A ^a   Bonadonna, F ^a   Perret, P ^a   Lambrechts, M M ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Blue tit; Conditioning; Olfaction; Parus caeruleus; Passerine

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; OLFACTION; PASSERINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LAVENDER; MALE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; ODOR; REWARD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMELLING;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; LAVANDULA; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SEX FACTORS; SMELL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPARROWS;

AVES; LAVANDULA ANGUSTIFOLIA; PARUS CAERULEUS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 26044480641     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2005.07.005     Document Type: Article

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