Artificially generated cultural variation between two groups of captive monkeys, Colobus guereza kikuyuensis

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-20

  Price, Elizabeth ^a   Caldwell, Christine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioural tradition; Colobus; Cultural transmission; Monkey; Social learning; Virtual demonstrator

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TESTING METHOD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; REWARD; SOCIAL LEARNING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLOBUS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

COLOBUS; COLOBUS GUEREZA KIKUYUENSIS; COLOBUS SP.; PRIMATES;

EID: 33845186431     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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