Animal Behavior: The Raised-by-Wolves Predicament

William A. Searcy; Stephen Nowicki

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.064

Animal Behavior: The Raised-by-Wolves Predicament

William A. Searcy, Stephen Nowicki

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Abstract

Social learning poses a particular problem for brood parasites, which are raised by adults of another species. Brood-parasitic cowbirds use a password, a simple signal that aids the young in identifying appropriate models for learning of their species' behaviors.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	R1243-R1244
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	29
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.064
State	Published - Dec 2 2019

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