ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017
Conformity does not perpetuate suboptimal traditions in a wild population of songbirds.
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Social learning is important to the life history of many animals, helping individuals to acquire new adaptive behavior. However despite long-running debate, it remains an open question whether a reliance on social learning can also lead to mismatched or maladaptive behavior. In a previous study, we experimentally induced traditions for opening a bidirectional door puzzle box in replicate subpopulations of the great tit
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