Behavioral constraints and the evolution of faithful social learning

Behavioral “traditions”, i.e. behavioral patterns that are acquired with the aid of social learning and that are relatively stable in a group, have been observed in several species. Recently, however, it has been questioned whether non-human social learning is faithful enough to stabilize those patt...

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Main Author: Alberto ACERBI, Pierre O. JACQUET, Claudio TENNIE
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2012-04-01
Series:Current Zoology
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Online Access:http://www.currentzoology.org/paperdetail.asp?id=12007