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The roles of vocal and visual interactions in social learning zebra finches : a video playback experiment

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Date
06/2017
Author
Guillette, Lauren M.
Healy, Susan D.
Funder
BBSRC
Grant ID
BB/M013944/1
Keywords
Copying
Foraging
Social interaction
Social learning
Video playback
Zebra finch
QH301 Biology
NDAS
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Abstract
The transmission of information from an experienced demonstrator to a naïve observer often depends on characteristics of the demonstrator, such as familiarity, success or dominance status. Whether or not the demonstrator pays attention to and/or interacts with the observer may also affect social information acquisition or use by the observer. Here we used a video-demonstrator paradigm first to test whether video demonstrators have the same effect as using live demonstrators in zebra finches, and second, to test the importance of visual and vocal interactions between the demonstrator and observer on social information use by the observer. We found that female zebra finches copied novel food choices of male demonstrators they saw via live-streaming video while they did not consistently copy from the demonstrators when they were seen in playbacks of the same videos. Although naive observers copied in the absence of vocalizations by the demonstrator, as they copied from playback of videos with the sound off, females did not copy where there was a mis-match between the visual information provided by the video and vocal information from a live male that was out of sight. Taken together these results suggest that video demonstration is a useful methodology for testing social information transfer, at least in a foraging context, but more importantly, that social information use varies according to the vocal interactions, or lack thereof, between the observer and the demonstrator.
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Guillette , L M & Healy , S D 2017 , ' The roles of vocal and visual interactions in social learning zebra finches : a video playback experiment ' , Behavioural Processes , vol. 139 , pp. 43-49 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2016.12.009
Publication
Behavioural Processes
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2016.12.009
ISSN
0376-6357
Type
Journal article
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© 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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We thank the BBSRC (Anniversary Future Leader Fellowship BB/M013944/1: LMG) for funding.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10623

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