Habituation to Auditory Stimuli by Captive African Elephants (Loxodonta Africana)

Elephants are cognitive species that exhibit many types of learning. Associative, social, and insight learning have been investigated with elephants, but one of the simplest forms, habituation, has not. As an individual learns that a stimulus is neither harmful nor beneficial, it will decrease its r...

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Main Author: Goodyear, Sarah Elizabeth
Format: Others
Published: TopSCHOLAR® 2015
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Online Access:http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1481
http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2500&context=theses