A farmer is being troubled by coyotes eating his sheep. In an attempt to solve the problem, he kills a sheep and laces its body with a nausea-inducing drug. He leaves the sheep out where he knows the coyotes roam. He hopes they will learn not to eat the sheep. The farmer is attempting to apply the principle of ________ to accomplish this.

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The farmer is attempting to use conditioned food aversions by lacing the sheep's body with a nausea-inducing drug to make the coyotes associate eating sheep with feeling sick.

A Farmer Is Being Troubled by Coyotes Eating His Sheep