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Padoa-Schioppa, Camillo; Jandolo, Lucia; Visalberghi, Elisabetta – Cognition, 2006
We studied economic choice behavior in capuchin monkeys by offering them to choose between two different foods available in variable amounts. When monkeys selected between familiar foods, their choice patterns were well-described in terms of relative value of the two foods. A leading view in economics and biology is that such behavior results from…
Descriptors: Prediction, Primatology, Food, Selection