Spatial learning as an adaptation in hummingbirds.
An ecological approach based on food distribution suggests that humming birds should more easily learn to visit a flower in a new location than to learn to return to a flower in a position just visited, for a food reward. Experimental results support this hypothesis as well as the general view that differences in learning within and among species represent adaptations.
Cole
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Hainsworth
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Kamil
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Mercier
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Wolf
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