期刊
BIOLOGY LETTERS
卷 12, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0188
关键词
social learning; resource distribution; social information; bumblebees; foraging; social cue
资金
- Royal Society Research Grant
- Fyssen Foundation research grant
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- ERC Advanced Grant
- Royal Society University Research Fellowship
To understand the relative benefits of social and personal information use in foraging decisions, we developed an agent-based model of social learning that predicts social information should be more adaptive where resources are highly variable and personal information where resources vary little. We tested our predictions with bumblebees and found that foragers relied more on social information when resources were variable than when they were not. We then investigated whether socially salient cues are used preferentially over non-social ones in variable environments. Although bees clearly used social cues in highly variable environments, under the same conditions they did not use non-social cues. These results suggest that bumblebees use a 'copy-when-uncertain' strategy.
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