Milk bottles revisited: Social learning and individual variation in the blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus

Aplin, Lucy; Sheldon, Ben; Morand-Ferron, J.

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Milk bottles revisited: Social learning and individual variation in the blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus

Date

2013

Authors

Aplin, Lucy

Sheldon, Ben

Morand-Ferron, J.

Publisher

Academic Press

Abstract

Blue tits are famous for the 'milk bottle' innovation, which emerged at numerous sites across Britain in the early 20th century. However, overall we still know little about the factors that foster or hinder the spread of innovations, or of the impact of i