Exploring Social Markets, Partner Debt, and Mimetic Currency in Dolphins

Dynamic models of “Biological Markets” can provide a systematic and ecologically-valid approach to studying communication and social cognition in dolphins. These market models view interacting animals as traders engaged in a negotiation for social commodities, whose values vary with the state of t...

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Main Author: Christine M. Johnson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Animal Behavior and Cognition 2016-11-01
Series:Animal Behavior and Cognition
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Online Access:http://www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/uploads/journals/13/03.Nov2016-Johnson_Final.pdf