Does father know best? Social learning from kin and non-kin in juvenile ringdoves

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-10

  Hatch, Karen K ^a   Lefebvre, Louis ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cultural transmission; Kin; Ringdoves; Social learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATHER CHILD RELATION; JUVENILE; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; SOCIAL LEARNING;

BIRD JUVENILE; CULTURAL TRANSMISSION; RINGDOVE; SOCIAL LEARNING;

STREPTOPELIA RISORIA;

EID: 0030609710     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(97)00022-3     Document Type: Article

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