Who follows whom? Shoaling preferences and social learning of foraging information in guppies

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 181-190

  Lachlan, Robert F ^a   Crooks, Lucy ^b   Laland, Kevin N ^c  

^a Bute Building   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING PREFERENCE; FISH; FORAGING; LEARNING; SCHOOLING BEHAVIOUR;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 0032126933     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0760     Document Type: Article

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