Successive negative contrast in a bird: starlings' behaviour after unpredictable negative changes in food quality

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 857-865

  Freidin, Esteban ^a   Cuello, Marina I ^a   Kacelnik, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

consumption; exploration; starling; Sturnus vulgaris; successive negative contrast

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD QUALITY; LARVA; PASSERINE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 62149117268     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.12.010     Document Type: Article

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