Potent social learning and conformity shape a wild primate's foraging decisions

Science

Volumn 340, Issue 6131, 2013, Pages 483-485

  Van De Waal, Erica ^a,b   Borgeaud, Christèle ^b,c   Whiten, Andrew ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b Inkawu Vervet Project   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS; FOOD PREFERENCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HAPLORHINI; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 84876549987     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1232769     Document Type: Article

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