Innovative individuals are not always the best demonstrators: feeding innovation and social transmission in Serinus canaria.

BACKGROUND: Feeding innovation occurs when individuals choose a novel, unknown type of food and/or acquire new feeding skills. Here we studied feeding innovation and social transmission of the new feeding habit in canaries. Adult canaries eat a wide variety of seeds but avoid larger ones such as tho...

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Main Authors: Nicole Cadieu, Stéphane Fruchard, Jean-Claude Cadieu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2809745?pdf=render

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