Animal Traditions: Experimental Evidence of Learning by Imitation in an Unlikely Animal
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Animal Traditions: Experimental Evidence of Learning by Imitation in an Unlikely Animal
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.
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.05.002