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Specialized Face Learning Is Associated with Individual Recognition in Paper Wasps
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Social wasps that can discriminate faces are specialized for facial learning, whereas other closely related species are not.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sheehan, M. J., & Tibbetts, E. A.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2011-12-02
- Volume
- 334
- Issue
- 6060
- Pages
- 1272-1275
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W1968964554
- Cited by
- 281
- References
- 27
- FWCI
- 5.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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