Experimental identification of social learning in wild animals

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 265-283

  Reader, Simon M ^a   Biro, Dora ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; IMITATION; LEARNING; MALE; REVIEW; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CULTURE; FEMALE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77956987919     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/LB.38.3.265     Document Type: Article

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