The foraging behaviour of sheep in response to environmental uncertainty

When foraging alone in a indoor arena, sheep adjusted their patch leaving behaviour according to their expression of patch quality. This was achieved by combining information about the average probability of reward within a patch with recent patch experience. In a supplementary experiment no signifi...

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Main Author: Hewitson, Lindsey
Published: University of Edinburgh 2002
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.652404