Personality predicts the propensity for social learning in a wild primate

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Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Carter, Alecia J ^a,b,c   Marshall, Harry H ^b,d   Heinsohn, Robert ^a   Cowlishaw, Guy ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Baboon; Information use; Papio ursinus; Personality; Social information; Social learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PAPIO URSINUS; PERFORMANCE ANXIETY; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; SOCIAL LEARNING; SPECIES HABITAT;

EID: 84897944381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.283     Document Type: Article

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