Interspecific Social Learning: Novel Preference Can Be Acquired from a Competing Species

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 1248-1252

  Seppänen, Janne Tuomas ^a   Forsman, Jukka T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; IMITATION; LEARNING; NESTING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRDS;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 34447269700     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.06.034     Document Type: Article

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