Social contact influences the response of infant marmosets towards novel food

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 365-372

  Voelkl, Bernhard ^a   Schrauf, Cornelia ^a   Huber, Ludwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; EXPLORATION; FACILITATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MAMMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; MARMOSETS;

EID: 33746604325     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.10.013     Document Type: Article

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