title: Effects of varied prior manipulatory or consummatory behaviours on nut opening, predation, novel foods consumption, nest building, and food tablet grasping in rats.
abstract: Varied manipulatory-gnawing experience with nonfood objects facilitated later nut opening and insect predation in rats. Varied food consumption, which minimized manipulation, facilitated the hulling and consumption of sunflower seeds. Both treatments weakly facilitated forepaw food tablet grasping but neither treatment altered novel foods consumption or nest building. The data suggest that these two forms of prior experience contribute differentially to some later behaviours depending upon the sensory-motoric demands of the task and/or upon the intensity of food related stimulation.
authors.forename: E D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Kemble
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Wimmer
authors.affiliation: Division of Social Sciences; University of Minnesota, Morris; Morris, MN, 56267, U.S.A.
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Konkler