Tinbergen revisited: a replication and extension of experiments on the beak colour preferences of herring gull chicks

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 795-802

  Cate, Carel ten ^a   Bruins, Wouter S ^a   den Ouden, Jeroen ^a   Egberts, Toke ^a   Neevel, Han ^b   Spierings, Michelle ^a   van der Burg, Karin ^a   Brokerhof, Agnes W ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

begging; colour preference; herring gull; history of ethology; Larus argentatus; pecking response; preference bias; Tinbergen; visual perception

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; COLOR; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; JUVENILE; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SEABIRD;

CLUPEIDAE; LARUS ARGENTATUS;

EID: 62149130070     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.12.020     Document Type: Article

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