A rule of thumb in mammalian herbivores?
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Two experimental studies were conducted to determine how lambs, Ovis aries, generalize across flavors related with beneficial food. After conditioning the lambs with nutritious food, the lambs were then given nutritious food with varying concentrations of the original flavor. The lambs were initially aversed by flavor and preferred weaker flavors. All mammalian herbivores may exhibit similar behavior as a foraging strategy, specially when they are unfamiliar with the food they encounter.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1998
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How do herbivores trade-off the positive and negative consequences of diet selection decisions?
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Animal learning is examined using food preferences in goats based on positive and negative postingestive effects. In experiments, goats were found to prefer conifer species associated with positive effects supplied by researchers, and avoided those species for which researchers supplied negative effects.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2006
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Food preferences of grey partridge chicks, Perdix perdix, in relation to size, colour and movement of insect prey
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Influence of movement, size, and color of insect prey on the food selection of grey partridge chicks, Perdix perdix, is discussed.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2006
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