Mink, ferrets and skunks were tested on successive reversals of two-choice object or positional discriminations in a modified Wisconsin General Training Apparatus. All species showed considerable improvement in performance after considerable training and some subjects exhibited one-trial reversal learning. Mink and ferrets persistently made more errors when position cues were relevant than when object cues were relevant; the reverse was true of skunks.
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