Editing Observational learning (section)

===Acquiring foraging niches===
Studies have been conducted at the University of Oslo and University of Saskatchewan regarding the possibility of social learning in birds, delineating the difference between cultural and genetic acquisition.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = Social learning in birds and its role in shaping a foraging niche|journal = Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences|volume = 366|issue = 1567|pages = 969–77|date = 2011|last = Slagsvold|first = Tore|author-link=Tore Slagsvold|pmid = 21357219|pmc = 3049099|doi = 10.1098/rstb.2010.0343}}</ref> Strong evidence already exists for [[mate choice]], bird song, predator recognition, and foraging.

Researchers cross-fostered eggs between nests of blue tits and great tits and observed the resulting behavior through audio-visual recording. Tits raised in the foster family learned their foster family's foraging sites early. This shift—from the sites the tits would among their own kind and the sites they learned from the foster parents—lasted for life. What young birds learn from foster parents, they eventually transmitted to their own offspring. This suggests cultural transmissions of foraging behavior over generations in the wild.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Slagsvold | first1 = T.|author-link=Tore Slagsvold | last2 = Wiebe | first2 = K. L. | year = 2011 | title = Social learning in birds and its role in shaping a foraging niche | journal = Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | volume = 366 | issue = 1567| pages = 969–977 | doi = 10.1098/rstb.2010.0343 | pmid=21357219 | pmc=3049099}}</ref>