Learning from watching alarmed demonstrators: Does the cause of alarm matter?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1163-1169

  Griffin, Andrea S ^a   Haythorpe, Kathryn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acridotheres tristis; Indian mynah; Observational learning; Place learning; Social learning; Sturnus tristis

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOINFORMATICS; CONSPECIFIC; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FEEDING GROUND; LEARNING; PASSERINE; PREDATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ACRIDOTHERES TRISTIS; ANIMALIA; STURNUS;

EID: 79957728913     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.02.022     Document Type: Article

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