Social learning in fishes: A review

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 280-288

  Brown, Culum ^a   Laland, Kevin N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antipredator behaviour; Eavesdropping; Fishes; Foraging; Mate choice; Migration; Orientation; Social learning

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; FISH; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MATE CHOICE; MIGRATION; ORIENTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; PISCES;

EID: 0242490414     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-2979.2003.00122.x     Document Type: Article

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