Social learning is triggered by environmental cues in immigrant birds

PLoS Biol. 2024 Nov 15;22(11):e3002904. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002904. eCollection 2024 Nov.

Abstract

After dispersal, what cues trigger social learning in immigrants? A new study in wild-caught great tits in PLOS Biology suggests that changes in the physical environment, rather than the social environment, are key in prompting social learning by immigrants.

Publication types

  • Kommentar

MeSH terms

  • Animal Migration / physiology
  • Animals
  • Birds / physiology
  • Cues*
  • Emigrants and Immigrants / psychology
  • Environment
  • Passeriformes / physiology
  • Social Learning* / physiology

Grants and funding

R.H. is supported by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (grant number ECF-2023-039). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.