State-dependent decision making: educated predators strategically trade off the costs and benefits of consuming aposematic prey

By Craig R. A. Barnett, Melissa Bateson, C. Rowe. 2007

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Performance on a categorisation task suggests that removal of environmental enrichment induces ‘pessimism’ in captive European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) (2007, background): “The birds were trained to flip the lid off the dish to obtain a mealworm hidden underneath (see Barnett et al 2007 for a similar task).”
Direction and strength of selection by predators for the color of the aposematic wood tiger moth (2011, methodology): “2004) and the hunger level of predators (Barnett et al. 2007; Sandre et al. 2010).”