Chick behavioural responses to 3D-printed insect replicas, featuring combinations of traits from wasps and flies

These data describe individual behaviour during an experiment investigating chick responses to different trait combinations in 3D-printed insect replicas. Replicas were based on various combinations of shape, pattern, colour and size traits taken from either non-mimetic flies (Tachina fera) or wasps (Vespula vulgaris). Data describe chick progress through several phases:
- A grouped phase where chicks became familiar with foraging within the experimental arena
- A training phase, during which they open lids of small dishes and consume mealworms,
- A learning phase, where the chicks learned to associate fly stimuli with a reward and wasp stimuli with no reward
- A testing phase, in which they were presented with single stimuli at a time and we recorded the time taken to approach and attack the stimulus.
Also included are chick growth curves (daily weights in g) for the period of the experiment.