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.
Galef
Bennett G
BG
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. galef@mcmaster.ca
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D008988:Herpestidae / Q000502:physiology*; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male