Learning to Learn During Visual Discrimination in Group Housed Dwarf Goats (Capra hircus)

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 447-456

  Langbein, Jan ^a   Siebert, Katrin ^a   Nürnberg, Gerd ^a   Manteuffel, Gerhard ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

Author keywords

automated learning device; dwarf goats; learning set; learning to learn; visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GOAT; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VISION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GOATS; LEARNING; MALE; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 38349115358     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.121.4.447     Document Type: Article

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