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Before proceeding to discuss the various aspects of animal behaviour it is necessary to consider learning in some detail. Not only is it involved in the perfection and shaping of most behaviour patterns but it is also used as an experimental tool in the study of behaviour. If one wants to know whether an animal can discriminate between two colours, or two tones, or even between two individuals, certain types of learning experiments are involved and a knowledge of how this is done is needed.
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Wood-Gush, D.G.M. (1983). Learning. In: Elements of Ethology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5931-6_1
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