Identifying social learning in animal populations: A new 'option-bias' method

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Kendal, Rachel L ^a,b   Kendal, Jeremy R ^a,b   Hoppitt, Will ^a   Laland, Kevin N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FORAGING; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; MARMOSET; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; SOCIAL LEARNING; STANDARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; LEARNING; LEONTOPITHECUS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; LEARNING; LEONTOPITHECUS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 68449083841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006541     Document Type: Article

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