Studies of social learning suggest that many animals are disproportionately likely to adopt
the behaviour of the majority, and that this conformist transmission hinders the spread of …

Many animals are capable of learning from others, a process referred to as social learning.
There is little doubt that a capacity for social learning is an adaptation and that it typically …

Multiple factors potentially influence the formation and longevity of behavioural traditions. In
zebrafish, Danio rerio, we investigated whether subjects follow knowledgeable fish escaping …

The way in which novel learned behaviour patterns spread through animal populations
remains poorly understood, despite extensive field research and the recognition that such …

We describe two field experiments with wild guppies, Poecilia reticulata, in Trinidad that
demonstrated that guppies can acquire foraging and predator escape-response information …

Previous studies have shown that guppies, Poecilia reticulata, can learn the route to a food
source by shoaling with knowledgeable conspecifics, and prefer to shoal with experienced …

We examine the literature on fishes' aggressive behaviour after social isolation, in the light of
a connectionist adaptive control system model for robot motivation and learning. If animals …

There is considerable laboratory-based evidence that social learning plays a role in the
behaviour of many animals, including fish. However, a weakness of such studies in fish, is …

Social learning, learning from others, allows animals to quickly and adaptively adjust to
changing environments, but only if social learning provides reliable, useful information in …

We investigated the interaction between individual experience and social learning in
domestic dogs, Canis familiaris. We conducted two experiments using detour tests, where …