Social learning of a novel avoidance task in the guppy: Conformity and social release

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 41-47

  Brown, Culum ^a   Laland, Kevin N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FISH; LEARNING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 0036380568     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.3021     Document Type: Article

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