New behavioural trait adopted or rejected by observing heterospecific tutor fitness

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1712, 2011, Pages 1736-1741

  Seppänen, Janne Tuomas ^a,b,c   Forsman, Jukka T ^c   Mönkkönen, Mikko ^a   Krams, Indrikis ^d   Salmi, Tuuli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d DAUGAVPILS UNIVERSITY   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Animal culture; Animal traditions; Copying; Learning bias; Niche overlap; Social learning

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; GEOMETRY; HETEROTROPHY; LEARNING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LOCAL ADAPTATION; NICHE OVERLAP; NICHE PARTITIONING; PASSERINE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79955429444     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1610     Document Type: Article

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