Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 1967 |
Authors: | Stevenson, JG |
Journal: | Animal Behaviour |
Volume: | 15 |
Issue: | 4 |
Date Published: | 1967 |
ISBN Number: | 0003-3472 |
Keywords: | Fringilla, Fringilla coelebs, Fringillidae |
Abstract: | When young chaffinches turned on either white noise or song in an operant situation, a reinforcing effect of song, but not noise, was found. For one out of eight birds in the noise group, responding to an active perch, divided by responding to both the active and an inactive perch, was significantly lower when the active perch did produce noise than when it did not. By contrast, for five out of eight birds in the song group this ratio was significantly higher when the active perch did produce song than when it did not. However, the effects of song on responding to the active perch did not overcome initial perch preferences and did not produce a high steady rate of responding. |
URL: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0003347267900401 |
Short Title: | Animal Behaviour |
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