Animal Traditions: Experimental Evidence of Learning by Imitation in an Unlikely Animal Journal Articles uri icon

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abstract

  • A new field study provides the first experimental evidence of learning by imitation in a free-living animal and demonstrates that social learning can maintain two behavioral traditions in a single population.

publication date

  • July 2010