Flying in the face of nature

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 295-305

  Houston, Alasdair I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Foraging; Marginal value theorem; Operant schedule; Optimality

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR; PREDICTION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 60449088272     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.12.007     Document Type: Review

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