Further studies of reliance on socially acquired information when foraging in potentially risky situations

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1329-1335

  Galef, Bennett G ^a   Yarkovsky, Nicole ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

domestic cat; Felis domesticus; food choice; foraging; Norway rats; predation risk; Rattus norvegicus; social learning

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL THEORY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FELID; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; PREDATION RISK; RODENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 64549153541     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.01.038     Document Type: Article

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