Scrounger numbers and the inhibition of social learning in pigeons

Behavioural Processes - Tập 40 Số 3 - Trang 201-207 - 1997
Louis Lefebvre1, Rémi Helder
1Department of Biology, McGill University, 1205, avenue docteur Penfield, Montréal, Québec H3A 1B1, Canada

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