The effect of demonstrator age and number on duration of socially-induced food preferences in house mouse (Mus domesticus)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 69-77

  Choleris, Elena ^a   Guo, Cong ^a,b   Liu, Huifen ^a,b   Mainardi, Marisa ^a   Valsecchi, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Constraints on learning; Food preference; Mouse; Social learning

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD PREFERENCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL LEARNING;

MUS DOMESTICUS;

EID: 0030805964     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(97)00029-6     Document Type: Article

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