A fruit in hand is worth many more in the bush: Steep spatial discounting by free-ranging rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 197-202

  Kralik, Jerald D ^a   Sampson, William W L ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice; Decision making; Reward; Rhesus monkeys; Spatial discounting

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COGNITION; CURVATURE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; PRIMATE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FOOD; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NONHUMAN; STEEP SPATIAL DISCOUNTING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FOOD; FRUIT; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; REWARD;

MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 84857143057     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2011.09.010     Document Type: Article

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