Social influences of competition on impulsive choices in domestic chicks

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 183-186

  Amita, Hidetoshi ^a   Kawamori, Ai ^a   Matsushima, Toshiya ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Choice; Risk; Social foraging; Temporal discounting

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FORAGING BEHAVIOR; ISOLATION EFFECT; NOISE; POULTRY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77951478131     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0748     Document Type: Article

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