Social learning in insects: a higher-order capacity?
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Social Learning in Insects: A Higher-Order Capacity?
Insects possess miniature brains but exhibit a sophisticated behavioral repertoire (Menzel and Giurfa, 2001; Giurfa, 2003, 2007; Chittka and Niven, 2009; Srinivasan, 2010; Avarguès-Weber et al., 2011; Dyer, 2012; Zhang et al., 2012). Recent studies have indicated that insects copy the behavior of conspecifics in contexts as diverse as foraging, in the case of bumblebees (Leadbeater and Chittka,...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Behaviorial Neuroscience
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1662-5153
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2012.00057