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Catanese, Francisco Hernan  
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Distel, Roberto Alejandro  
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Fernandez, Paola Alejandra  
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Villalba, Juan Jose  
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2017-09-28T15:50:23Z  
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2016-05  
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Catanese, Francisco Hernan; Distel, Roberto Alejandro; Fernandez, Paola Alejandra; Villalba, Juan Jose; How the foraging decisions of a small ruminant are influenced by past feeding experiences with low-quality food; Elsevier Science; Behavioural Processes; 126; 5-2016; 12-20  
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0376-6357  
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http://hdl.handle.net/11336/25292  
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Feeding experiences with low-quality foods can be improved when these foods are ingested in close temporal association with foods of higher nutritional quality. However, preference for low-quality foods in nature seems to be rather insensitive to past positive experiences and more related to their intrinsic nutritional value. An explanation for this observation is still lacking, mainly because little is known about how herbivores use information about low-quality foods during foraging. Our objective was to provide original information about this issue using a small ruminant (sheep; Ovis aries) as animal model. We manipulated the sheep’s experience with a low-quality food (wheat straw) using a conditioning procedure (“oral-delay conditioning procedure”), and then we evaluated the use of this information in a simulated foraging scenario provided with wheat straw and a variable amount of a high-quality food in spatially separated feeding stations. Inclusion of wheat straw into the diet was strongly dependent on the availability of the high-quality food. We observed a threshold level in the availability of the high-quality food, which defined a zone of drastic change in the likelihood of inclusion of the wheat straw into the diet (i.e., acceptance or rejection of wheat straw). This threshold level did not change for sheep with (CS+) or without (CS-) a previous positive experience with wheat straw. However, once foraging conditions stimulated all sheep to start including the wheat straw into the diet (i.e., below the threshold level), the intake of this food was greater by CS+ sheep. This increased intake was not explained by a higher motivation to eat the wheat straw but to a greater amount of time spent foraging this food and less time spent searching for the preferred higher-quality alternative. We discuss these results based on optimal foraging models and learning models of diet selection.  
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application/pdf  
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eng  
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Elsevier Science  
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess  
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/  
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Foraging Behaviour  
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Learning  
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Decision-Making  
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Low-Quality Foods  
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Sheep  
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Otras Producción Animal y Lechería  
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Producción Animal y Lechería  
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CIENCIAS AGRÍCOLAS  
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How the foraging decisions of a small ruminant are influenced by past feeding experiences with low-quality food  
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article  
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info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo  
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info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion  
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2017-07-27T12:25:41Z  
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126  
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12-20  
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Países Bajos  
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Amsterdam  
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Fil: Catanese, Francisco Hernan. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Centro de Recursos Naturales Renovables de la Zona Semiárida. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Centro de Recursos Naturales Renovables de la Zona Semiárida; Argentina  
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Fil: Distel, Roberto Alejandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Centro de Recursos Naturales Renovables de la Zona Semiárida. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Centro de Recursos Naturales Renovables de la Zona Semiárida; Argentina  
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Fil: Fernandez, Paola Alejandra. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Centro de Recursos Naturales Renovables de la Zona Semiárida. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Centro de Recursos Naturales Renovables de la Zona Semiárida; Argentina  
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Fil: Villalba, Juan Jose. University of Utah; Estados Unidos  
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Behavioural Processes  
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info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376635716300365  
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info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2016.02.015