Animal innovation defined and operationalized

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Ramsey, Grant ^a   Bastian, Meredith L ^b   Van schaik, Carel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Behavior; Culture; Improvisation; Innovation; Invention; Operational definition; Social learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONDITIONING; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECOLOGY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOR; INTELLIGENCE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL LEARNING; TIME; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CREATIVENESS; CULTURE; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; ECOLOGY; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 37349000232     PISSN: 0140525X     EISSN: 14691825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X07002373     Document Type: Article

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