Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds

Nature

Volumn 518, Issue 7540, 2015, Pages 538-541

  Aplin, Lucy M ^a,b   Farine, Damien R ^a,c,d   Morand Ferron, Julie ^e   Cockburn, Andrew ^b   Thornton, Alex ^f   Sheldon, Ben C ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^g UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; FORAGING; NONHUMAN; PARUS MAJOR; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; ANIMAL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; LEARNING; MALE; MASS COMMUNICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME FACTOR; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRDS; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; LEARNING; MALE; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84925503064     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13998     Document Type: Article

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