In keeping with our focus on ethology with its central concept of energy-efficiency, the good news is that learning by modeling behavior on that of others (a.k.a. social learning) is extremely efficient. The bad news is that this form of learning is so energy-efficient that animals may model our or other animals’ problem behaviors as well as desirable ones.
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