Learning and the mimicry spectrum: from quasi-Bates to super-Müller

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1591-1599

  Balogh, Alexandra C V ^a   Gamberale Stille, Gabriella ^a   Leimar, Olof ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

associative learning; M llerian mimicry; mutualism; quasi Batesian mimicry; Rescorla Wagner model

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LEARNING; MIMICRY; MUTUALISM;

EID: 53549129981     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.07.017     Document Type: Article

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