Use of social information by sodium- and protein-deficient rats: test of a prediction (Boyd & Richerson 1988)

Boyd & Richerson (1988 Social Learning: Psychological and Biological Perspectives, pp. 29–48) predicted from formal models of the evolution of social learning that an animal should rely more heavily on socially acquired information when seeking a nutrient that it has difficulty learning to select for itself than when seeking a nutrient it can readily identify. We compared the extent to which Norway rats, Rattus norvegicus, seeking either sodium …