Testing for imitative and nonimitative social learning in the budgerigar using a two-object/two-action test

Male and female juvenile budgerigars, Melopsittacus undulatus, were allowed to observe a conspecific demonstrator using its beak to remove one of two distinctively coloured objects (i.e. a blue and a black stopper) from a hole in the lid of a box and eating seed from within. Both objects could be re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Heyes, C, Saggerson, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2002