The last two decades have seen a virtual explosion in empirical research on the role of social interactions in the development of animals' behavioral repertoires, and a similar increase in attention to formal models of social learning. Here we first review recent empirical evidence of social influences on food choice, tool use, patterns of movement, predator avoidance, mate choice, and courtship, and then consider formal models of when animals choose to copy behavior, and which other animals' behavior they copy, together with empirical tests of predictions from those models.
How to translate text using browser tools
1 June 2005
Social Learning in Animals: Empirical Studies and Theoretical Models
BENNETT G. GALEF,
KEVIN N. LALAND
ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE
It is not available for individual sale.
This article is only available to subscribers.
It is not available for individual sale.
It is not available for individual sale.
BioScience
Vol. 55 • No. 6
June 2005
Vol. 55 • No. 6
June 2005
public information
social learning
tradition