Video demonstrations seed alternative problem-solving techniques in wild common marmosets

Biology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Gunhold, Tina ^a   Whiten, Andrew ^b   Bugnyar, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Field experiment; Primates; Seeding information; Social learning; Video demonstration

Indexed keywords

FIELD METHOD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEOGRAPHY;

CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; PRIMATES;

ANIMAL; CALLITHRIX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRUIT; IMITATION; LEARNING; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CALLITHRIX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRUIT; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84930221202     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0439     Document Type: Article

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