Movement and conformity interact to establish local behavioural traditions in animal populations.

The social transmission of information is critical to the emergence of animal culture. Two processes are predicted to play key roles in how socially-transmitted information spreads in animal populations: the movement of individuals across the landscape and conformist social learning. We develop a mo...

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Main Authors: Marius Somveille, Josh A Firth, Lucy M Aplin, Damien R Farine, Ben C Sheldon, Robin N Thompson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-12-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006647