Social Learning of Migratory Performance

Successful bird migration can depend on individual learning, social learning, and innate navigation programs. Using 8 years of data on migrating whooping cranes, we were able to partition genetic and socially learned aspects of migration. Specifically, we analyzed data from a reintroduced population...

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Published in:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2013-08, Vol.341 (6149), p.999-1002
Main Authors: Mueller, Thomas, O'Hara, Robert B., Converse, Sarah J., Urbanek, Richard P., Fagan, William F.
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Age Factors
Aircraft components
Animal cognition
Animal ethology
Animal Migration
Animal migration behavior
Animal reproduction
Animals
Aves
Aviculture
Biological and medical sciences
Birds
Breeding of animals
Canyons
Cranes
Deviation
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Genetic relationships
Genetics
Ice
Learning
Male
Migration
Navigation
Observational learning
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Seasonal migration
Seasons
Sex Factors
Social Behavior
Socialization
Straight lines
Vertebrata
Wildlife refuges
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Breeding of animals
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Navigation
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Seasons
Sex Factors
Social Behavior
Socialization
Straight lines
Vertebrata
Wildlife refuges
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