The practicality of practice: A model of the function of play behaviour

Abstract The function of play has been a long‐debated topic in animal behaviour. One popular class of accounts is that play offers practice for serious adult behaviour, but little has been done to model the circumstances where this could be true. In this paper, we model an individual who, over the j...

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Main Authors: Dave E. W. Mallpress, Marek Špinka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2023-09-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10521