Increased initial task difficulty drives social foragers to develop sub-optimal conformity instead of adaptive diversity
The extent to which animal societies exhibit social conformity as opposed to behavioural diversity is commonly attributed to adaptive learning strategies. Less attention is given to the possibility that the relative difficulty of learning a task socially as opposed to individually can be critical fo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
2023-07-01
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| Series: | Royal Society Open Science |
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| Online Access: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230715 |