Social learning directs feeding preferences in the zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 823-828

  Benskin, Clare Mcw H ^a,b   Mann, N I ^a   Lachlan, R F ^b   Slater, P J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCE; LEARNING;

AUCHENORRHYNCHA; AVES; FRINGILLIDAE; TAENIOPYGIA; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 0036436538     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.2005     Document Type: Article

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