Socially biased learning in the acquisition of a complex foraging task in juvenile cottontop tamarins, Saguinus oedipus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 267-277

  Humle, Tatyana ^a   Snowdon, Charles T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

cottontop tamarin; food calling; foraging; individual difference; juvenile primate; Saguinus oedipus; scaffolding; scrounging; socially based learning

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CALLING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; JUVENILE; LEARNING; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PRIMATE;

PRIMATES; SAGUINUS IMPERATOR; SAGUINUS OEDIPUS; SIMIIFORMES;

EID: 37349018660     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.05.021     Document Type: Article

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