Social learning spreads knowledge about dangerous humans among American crows

A study showing that knowledge about dangerous humans spreads among American crows by social learning. The papers cite it for crows that mob a masked researcher: animals teach their young evasion, but slowly and to few. It marks the contrast with level 6 of the observer-modeling ladder (Table 2), at which a lineage would pass learned evasion to all its descendants at once.

Cited in

both papers (Flagship: Fig. 4; Companion Fig. 8, Table 2)

Used for

Table 2 (level 6); Companion Fig. 8a (Flagship Fig. 4a); studying up

Strand

Studying up: reflexivity, observation & method · Observer effects & deception in animals

Cite

@article{cornell2012social,
  title = {Social learning spreads knowledge about dangerous humans among American crows},
  author = {Heather N. Cornell and John M. Marzluff and Shannon Pecoraro},
  year = {2012},
  journal = {Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences},
  doi = {10.1098/rspb.2011.0957},
}