Social learning: parents may not always know best

Simon C. Griffith; Culum Brown

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.022

Social learning: parents may not always know best

Simon C. Griffith^*, Culum Brown

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The efficiency with which animals learn new skills depends on their ability to choose good tutors. A new study shows that early-life stress causes young zebra finches to switch tutor preference from parents to unrelated adults.

Original language	English
Article number	12165
Pages (from-to)	R802-R804
Number of pages	3
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	25
Issue number	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.022
Publication status	Published - 21 Sept 2015

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