Keas rely on social information in a tool use task but abandon it in favour of overt exploration

Interaction Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 304-323

  Gajdon, Gyula Koppany ^a,b   Amann, Laurent ^a,b   Huber, Ludwig ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Physical cognition; Reversal learning; Social learning; Tool use behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053164493     PISSN: 15720373     EISSN: 15720381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/is.12.2.06gaj     Document Type: Article

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