Sequential and simultaneous choices: Testing the diet selection and sequential choice models

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 218-223

  Freidin, Esteban ^a   Aw, Justine ^a   Kacelnik, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diet selection; Optimal foraging; Sequential choices; Starlings; Sturnus vulgaris

Indexed keywords

DIET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD SELECTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GAMEBIRD; TESTING METHOD;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DIET; FOOD PREFERENCES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REWARD; STARLINGS;

EID: 60449095098     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.12.001     Document Type: Article

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