Expanding the scope for social information use

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 171-181

  Bonnie, Kristin E ^a   Earley, Ryan L ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

behavioural cue; eavesdropping; public information; signalling; social information; social learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; LEARNING; SIGNALING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 34547837639     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.12.009     Document Type: Review

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