Strategy planning in dogs (Canis familiaris) in a progressive elimination task

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 22-28

  Dumas, Claude ^a   Dorais Pagé, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canis familiaris; Decision making; Search behavior; Strategy planning

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUNTING; MAMMAL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DOG; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DOGS; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 33646821037     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.01.016     Document Type: Article

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