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PERFORMANCE OF TWO SPECIES OF QUAIL ON BASIC REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULES1
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This research was supported by NIMH Grant MH 12573-01.
Abstract
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.
