Author(s): Abreu, Rodrigo Manuel Abril
Date: 2015
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/18229
Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
Project/scholarship: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/SFRH/SFRH%2FBD%2F33280%2F2007/PT; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/3599-PPCDT/PTDC%2FPSI-PCO%2F118776%2F2010/PT;
Subject(s): Biology; Neuroscience; Biology; Neuroscience
Group living animals may eavesdrop on signalling interactions between conspecifics. This enables them to collect adaptively relevant information about others, without incurring in the costs of first-hand information acquisition. Such ability, aka social eavesdropping, is expected to impact Darwinian fitness and hence predicts the evolution of cognitive processes that enable social animals to use social information available in the environment.(...)
