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Domestic cats (Felis catus) prefer freely available food over food that requires effort

Contrafreeloading is the willingness of animals to work for food when equivalent food is freely available. This behavior is observed in laboratory, domesticated, and captive animals. However, previous research found that six laboratory cats failed to contrafreeload. We hypothesized that cats would c...

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Autores principales: Delgado, Mikel M., Han, Brandon Sang Gyu, Bain, Melissa J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8904335/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34309759
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-021-01530-3