Performance of two species of quail on basic reinforcement schedules.
Two bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) and two Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) were trained to peck a response key to obtain food. In general, performance on fixed ratio 20 and variable- and fixed-interval 60-sec schedules was comparable to the response patterns of other species under these schedules.
D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds; D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D012055:Reinforcement Schedule; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D013045:Species Specificity