Schooling and learning: early social environment predicts social learning ability in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 923-929

  Chapman, Ben B ^a   Ward, Ashley J W ^b   Krause, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

early experience; phenotypic plasticity; Poecilia reticulata; reintroduction; shoaling behaviour; social environment; social learning

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE BREEDING; LEARNING; ONTOGENY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDICTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TELEOST;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 49149121194     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.03.022     Document Type: Article

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