Pathways of information transmission among wild songbirds follow experimentally imposed changes in social foraging structure

Biology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Firth, Josh A ^a   Sheldon, Ben C ^a   Farine, Damien R ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Information spread; Information use; Mixed species flocks; Social learning strategies; Social networks; Social transmission

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LEARNING; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SONGBIRD; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; APPETITE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 84982171358     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0144     Document Type: Article

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