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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Lee VE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6774944 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Royal Society open science 20190925 9
For animals that live alongside humans, people can present both an opportunity and a threat. Previous studies have shown that several species can learn to discriminate between individual people and assess risk based on prior experience. To avoid potentially costly encounters, it may also pay individuals to learn about dangerous people based on information from others. Social learning about anthropogenic threats is likely to be beneficial in habitats dominated by human activity, but experimental ...[more]