Scrounger numbers and the inhibition of social learning in pigeons

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 201-207

  Lefebvre, Louis ^a   Helder, Rémi ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Learning; Pigeons; Producing; Scrounging; Social foraging

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONFUSION; FEEDING APPARATUS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PIGEON; SOCIAL LEARNING; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0031239949     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(97)00783-3     Document Type: Article

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