Limited social learning of a novel technical problem by spotted hyenas

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 109, Issue PB, 2014, Pages 111-120

  Benson Amram, Sarah ^a   Heinen, Virginia K ^b,c   Gessner, Amelia ^b   Weldele, Mary L ^d   Holekamp, Kay E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Innovation; Neophobia; Social facilitation; Social learning; Stimulus enhancement

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVITY; CARNIVORE; LEARNING; MAMMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HYENA; MALE; NEOPHOBIA; NONHUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL LEARNING; ANIMAL; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGY;

CROCUTA CROCUTA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HYAENIDAE; LEARNING; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL FACILITATION;

EID: 84912117410     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2014.09.019     Document Type: Article

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