Trade-offs between social learning and individual innovativeness in common marmosets, Callithrix jacchus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1291-1301

  Burkart, Judith M ^a   Strasser, Andrea ^a   Foglia, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Callithrix jacchus; common marmoset; cooperative breeding; cultural evolution; culture; individual differences; information quality trade offs; innovation; social learning

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSPECIFIC; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LEARNING; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRADE-OFF;

CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; CALLITRICHIDAE; MARMOSETS;

EID: 64549130379     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.02.006     Document Type: Article

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