Coyotes who have been fed sheep carcasses that have been laced with a nausea-inducing poison are less likely to prey on sheep in the wild. This phenomenon is best explained by which classical conditioning phenomenon?

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This phenomenon is best explained by taste aversion learning, which is a type of classical conditioning where an animal learns to associate a certain food taste with illness or nausea. The coyotes associate the taste of sheep carcasses with the nausea-inducing poison, and therefore avoid preying on live sheep in the future.

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