Could egg rejection behaviour be transmitted by social learning?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Soler, Manuel ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complex communication; Egg rejection; Protolanguage; Social learning

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; EGG REJECTION; LEARNING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NESTING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79957680050     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.03.018     Document Type: Article

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