Do woodpecker finches acquire tool-use by social learning?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1482, 2001, Pages 2189-2193

  Tebbich, S ^a   Taborsky, M ^a   Fessl, B ^a   Blomqvist, D ^a  

^a KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Darwin's finches; Ontogeny; Social learning; Tool use

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; ONTOGENY; PASSERINE; TOOL USE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; ECUADOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL LEARNING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CACTOSPIZA PALLIDA;

EID: 0035823837     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1738     Document Type: Article

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