Conserving and managing animals that learn socially and share cultures

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 329-336

  Whitehead, Hal ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LEARNING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CULTURE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; LEARNING; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77957013845     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/LB.38.3.329     Document Type: Article

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