Experimental Analysis of Food Preference Transitivity in Fish

Abstract

Using plausible assumptions, we propose transitive odds and intrinsic models of food preference transitivity to account for observed behaviour when animals are feeding on items of pairs of food types from a set of such types for which preferences differ. The latter model also accounts for feeding when items of a single food type are available. The two models describe well novel data collected from sunfish feeding on three food types presented alone or in pairs, as well as feeding data in the literature from largemouth bass. The estimated parameters reflect such features of feeding behaviour as the strengths of preferences for different food types and changes in these preferences over time.

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