Selective attention to philopatric models causes directed social learning in wild vervet monkeys

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1691, 2010, Pages 2105-2111

  Van De Waal, Erica ^a,b   Renevey, Nathalie ^a,b   Favre, Camille Monique ^a,b   Bshary, Redouan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Artificial fruit; Field experiment; Selective attention; Social learning; Tradition; Vervet monkeys

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EUSOCIALITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRUIT; LEARNING; PHILOPATRY; PRIMATE; SELECTION; WILD POPULATION;

EID: 77955406177     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.2260     Document Type: Article

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