Predator Avoidance: Mechanisms

Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 757-764

  Coss, R G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioned inhibition; Habitat affordances; Mechanistic science; Pavlovian conditioning; Predator recognition; Relaxed selection; Selective habituation; Stimulus generalization; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872619861     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-045337-8.00300-4     Document Type: Chapter

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