Persuasive companions can be wrong: The use of misleading social information in nutmeg mannikins

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1217-1222

  Rieucau, Guillaume ^a   Giraldeau, Luc Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Informational cascades; Lonchura punctulata; Nutmeg mannikins; Personal information; Social information

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; JUNCUS; LONCHURA PUNCTULATA; MYRISTICA FRAGRANS;

EID: 70450252113     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp121     Document Type: Article

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