How to spend a token? Trade-offs between food variety and food preference in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 267-275

  Addessi, Elsa ^a   Mancini, Alessandra ^a,b   Crescimbene, Lara ^a   Ariely, Dan ^c   Visalberghi, Elisabetta ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Non human primates; Token exchange; Variety seeking

Indexed keywords

FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; PRIMATE; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CARBOHYDRATE INTAKE; CEBUS APELLA; DIETARY INTAKE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FAT INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; MACRONUTRIENT; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN INTAKE;

ANIMALS; CEBUS; DECISION MAKING; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; DIETARY FATS; DIETARY PROTEINS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD PREFERENCES; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; VIDEO RECORDING;

ANIMALIA; CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA; PRIMATES;

EID: 77649191711     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.12.012     Document Type: Article

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