Social learning about places: observers may need to detect both social alarm and its cause to learn

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 459-465

  Griffin, Andrea S ^a   Boyce, Hayley M ^b   MacFarlane, Geoff R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acridotheres tristis; common myna; Indian mynah; observational conditioning; predation risk; predator avoidance; social learning; Sturnus tristis

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LEARNING; PASSERINE; PREDATION RISK; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ACRIDOTHERES TRISTIS; STURNUS;

EID: 74649083900     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.11.029     Document Type: Article

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