Social learning about mate choices is taxonomically widespread, and is a potentially important mechanism of social evolution that may affect the strength of sexual selection in a population. We used a
Cognition data used in the analyses for "Evidence for Social Learning in a Family Living Lizard" "Task" = Identification number for cognition task, 1 = instrumental, 2 = association, 3 = reversal"T
Whether or not a bat exited in training sessions, pre-demonstator trials, demonstrator trials, and post-demonstrator trials, including latency to escape and whether the bat had escaped previously.
Early independence from parents is a critical period where social information acquired vertically may become outdated, or conflict with new information. However, across natural populations it is uncle
For many animals, the ability to distinguish cues indicative of predation risk from cues unrelated to predation risk is not entirely innate, but rather is learned and improved with experience. Two pat
