A new model system for studying behavioral traditions in animals
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A new model for studying the behavioral traditions in animals is used for studying the impact of traditional food habits on individual Norwegian rats in colonies to show that the replacement subjects displayed a remarkable allegiance to the food preferences shown by their respective initiating colonies. The model facilitates subjective studies of the environment of the specimens and analysis of the social relationships between imparters of the knowledge of tradition regarding order and distribution of food preferences and the learners.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1995
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Why behaviour patterns that animals learn socially are locally adaptive
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A new approach for analyzing social learning processes based on the Staddon-Simmelhag conditioning model was developed to examine the mechanisms of animal social learning. The results revealed that both individual and social learning contribute in the behavioral expression of animals, which is relative to social modifications such as rewards and punishments garnered by the animal populations following the expression of social behavior. It is suggested that animal social behavior evolves with changes in the social environment.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1995
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Determinants of the longevity of socially learned food preferences of Norway rats
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Three experiments were conducted to investigate the factors that might affect the longevity of socially induced food choices in Norway rats. The duration of the social influence on the food preferences of 42-day-old rats increased with both increasing numbers of demonstrators and increasing numbers of demonstrations by a single demonstrator. It also varied with the temporary dispersal of demonstrations but did not vary with the age of demonstrators.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1998
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