Scrounging facilitates social learning in common marmosets, Callithrix jacchus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1085-1092

  Caldwell, Christine A ^a,b   Whiten, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; CALLITHRIX JACCHUS;

EID: 0041911040     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2145     Document Type: Article

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