Abstract:10Animals use behavioural cues from others to make decisions in a variety of contexts. There is 11 growing evidence, from a range of taxa, that information about the locations of food patches can 12 spread through a population via social connections. However, it is not known whether information 13 about the quality of potential food sources transmits similarly. We studied foraging behaviour in a 14 population of wild songbirds with known social associations, and tested whether flock members use 15 social infor… Show more
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