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SUBMITTER: Smolla M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4938046 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Smolla Marco M Alem Sylvain S Chittka Lars L Shultz Susanne S
Biology letters 20160601 6
To understand the relative benefits of social and personal information use in foraging decisions, we developed an agent-based model of social learning that predicts social information should be more adaptive where resources are highly variable and personal information where resources vary little. We tested our predictions with bumblebees and found that foragers relied more on social information when resources were variable than when they were not. We then investigated whether socially salient cu ...[more]