The starling as a rational decision maker

A central question in behavioural and evolutionary ecology is to understand how animals make decisions between, for instance, potential mates, nesting sites, foraging patches and territories. Normative models of choice usually predict preferences between alternatives by computing their value accordi...

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Main Author: Schuck-Paim, Cynthia
Published: University of Oxford 2003
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.275403