Milk bottles revisited: Social learning and individual variation in the blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1225-1232

  Aplin, Lucy M ^a,b   Sheldon, Ben C ^b   Morand Ferron, Julie ^b,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blue tit; Cyanistes caeruleus; Innovation; Observational learning; Social information; Two action method

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; JUVENILE; PASSERINE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

AVES; CYANISTES CAERULEUS;

EID: 84879260914     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.03.009     Document Type: Article

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