The maintenance of traditions in marmosets: Individual habit, not social conformity? A field experiment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Pesendorfer, Mario B ^a,d   Gunhold, Tina ^a   Schiel, Nicola ^b   Souto, Antonio ^c   Huber, Ludwig ^a   Range, Friederike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE MICOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HABITUATION; MARMOSET; NONHUMAN; REWARD; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 84887212378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004472     Document Type: Article

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