Environmental harshness does not affect the propensity for social learning in great tits, Parus major

Abstract According to the harsh environment hypothesis, natural selection should favour cognitive mechanisms to overcome environmental challenges. Tests of this hypothesis to date have largely focused on asocial learning and memory, thus failing to account for the spread of information via social me...

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Main Authors: Emil Isaksson, Julie Morand-Ferron, Alexis Chaine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2024-03-01
Series:Animal Cognition
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-024-01862-w
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