Goats favour personal over social information in an experimental foraging task

PeerJ

Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Baciadonna, Luigi ^a   McElligott, Alan G ^a   Briefer, Elodie F ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capra hircus; Decision making; Information use; Patch assessment; Personal information; Social learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BROWSER (ORGANISM); CAPRA HIRCUS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GOAT; GRAZER; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

EID: 84885120454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.172     Document Type: Article

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