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Social learning in nest-building birds : a role for familiarity
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dc.contributor.author | Guillette, Lauren Mary | |
dc.contributor.author | Scott, Alice C Y | |
dc.contributor.author | Healy, Susan Denise | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-03-28T11:03:39Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-03-28T11:03:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-03 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Guillette , L M , Scott , A C Y & Healy , S D 2016 , ' Social learning in nest-building birds : a role for familiarity ' , Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , vol. 283 , no. 1827 , 20152685 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2685 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0962-8452 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 241184159 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 840469cc-1770-46ab-8046-93350c6ad5bf | |
dc.identifier.other | PubMed: 27009230 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 84961619717 | |
dc.identifier.other | PubMed: 27009230 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-8059-4480/work/60631270 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000375732500019 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/8498 | |
dc.description | © 2016 The Author(s). | en |
dc.description.abstract | It is becoming apparent that birds learn from their own experiences of nest building. What is not clear is whether birds can learn from watching conspecifics build. As social learning allows an animal to gain information without engaging in costly trial-and-error learning, first-time builders should exploit the successful habits of experienced builders. We presented first-time nest-building male zebra finches with either a familiar or an unfamiliar conspecific male building with material of a colour the observer did not like. When given the opportunity to build, males that had watched a familiar male build switched their material preference to that used by the familiar male. Males that observed unfamiliar birds did not. Thus, first-time nest builders use social information and copy the nest material choices when demonstrators are familiar but not when they are strangers. The relationships between individuals therefore influences how nest-building expertise is socially transmitted in zebra finches. | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | en |
dc.rights | © 2016 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. | en |
dc.subject | Nest building | en |
dc.subject | Cognition | en |
dc.subject | Birds | en |
dc.subject | Social learning | en |
dc.subject | Physical cognition | en |
dc.subject | QH301 Biology | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QH301 | en |
dc.title | Social learning in nest-building birds : a role for familiarity | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | BBSRC | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | BBSRC | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | The Royal Society | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Biology | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversity | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2685 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | BB/M013944/1 | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | BB/I019502/1 | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NF120136 | en |
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