Social Learning in Fishes

Fish Cognition and Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 186-202

  Brown, Culum ^a   Laland, Kevin ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antipredator behaviour; Fishes; Foraging; Migration; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 36448946670     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996058.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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