The ideal free distribution accounts for free‐operant domesticated dog foraging.
The Ideal Free Distribution suggests the relative allocation of the number of organisms foraging across two or more resource sites will match the relative density of reinforcement patches in those resource sites. This initial project sought to develop a new method of foraging research for dogs by us...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior Vol. 118; no. 2; pp. 327 - 337 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2022
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