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1 Social Learning: Public Information in Insects
Lars Chittka, Ellouise Leadbeater  Current Biology  Volume 15, Issue 21, Pages R869-R871 (November 2005) DOI: /j.cub Copyright © 2005 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

2 Figure 1 Learning from other species?
Darwin suggested that honeybees might learn from bumblebees not just which flowers to visit, but also might imitate the particular motor patterns to best extract the nectar, via observatory learning. (Photo by J. Spaethe.) Current Biology  , R869-R871DOI: ( /j.cub ) Copyright © 2005 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

3 Figure 2 A lonely cricket in trouble.
In this issue, Coolen et al. [17] report that this cricket could well have avoided its impending death — if only it had observed how conspecifics respond to predation threat. (Photo by O. Dangles.) Current Biology  , R869-R871DOI: ( /j.cub ) Copyright © 2005 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions


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