Socially biased learning among adult cottontop tamarins (Saguinus oedipus)

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 287-295

  Dillis, Christopher ^a   Humle, Tatyana ^a   Snowdon, Charles T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral matching; Cottontop tamarin; Foraging task; Social learning

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DATA ACQUISITION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FRUGIVORY; ISOLATED POPULATION; JUVENILE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANTHROPOIDEA; APPETITE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGING; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; SAGUINUS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES; SAGUINUS IMPERATOR; SAGUINUS OEDIPUS; SIMIIFORMES;

EID: 77449103314     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20778     Document Type: Article

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