Shoaling generates social learning of foraging information in guppies

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1161-1169

  Laland, Kevin N ^a   Williams, Kerry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA RETICULATA;

FORAGING; GUPPY; SHOALING; SOCIAL LEARNING;

EID: 0031150183     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0318     Document Type: Article

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