Use of social information by sodium- and protein-deficient rats: test of a prediction (Boyd & Richerson 1988)

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 627-630

  Galef Jr , Bennett G ^a   Whiskin, Elaine E ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

formal model; Norway rat; protein deficiency; Rattus norvegicus; Social learning; sodium deficiency

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; MODEL TEST; PROTEIN; RODENT; SODIUM;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 38649136218     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.06.023     Document Type: Article

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