Animal traditions: experimental evidence of learning by imitation in an unlikely animal.

Curr Biol

Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Published: July 2010

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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