Vocal culture in New Caledonian crows Corvus moneduloides

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 767-776

  Bluff, Lucas A ^a   Kacelnik, Alex ^a   Rutz, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal culture; Cumulative cultural evolution; Material culture; Social learning; Social network; Social transmission; Tool use; Vocal dialect; Vocal mimicry

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LEARNING; MIMICRY; PASSERINE; SOCIAL NETWORK; SONG; TOOL USE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CORVIDAE; CORVUS MONEDULOIDES;

EID: 78649431823     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01527.x     Document Type: Article

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