ReviewLearning & behavior2010
Experimental identification of social learning in wild animals.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 110 citations in OpenAlex.
- Social tolerance and success-biased social learning underlie the cultural transmission of an induced extractive foraging tradition in a wild tool-using primate.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Social demonstration of colour preference improves the learning of associated demonstrated actions.Animal cognition · 2024Article
- Chimpanzees communicate to coordinate a cultural practice.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- The influence of task difficulty, social tolerance and model success on social learning in Barbary macaques.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Multiple entrained oscillator model of food anticipatory circadian rhythms.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Social behavior mediates the use of social and personal information in wild jays.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Animal cultures: how we've only seen the tip of the iceberg.Evolutionary human sciences · 2019Review
- Foundations of cumulative culture in apes: improved foraging efficiency through relinquishing and combining witnessed behaviours in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Animal social learning: associations and adaptations.F1000Research · 2016Review
- Experimental resource pulses influence social-network dynamics and the potential for information flow in tool-using crows.Nature communications · 2015Article
- Phenotypic assortment in wild primate networks: implications for the dissemination of information.Royal Society open science · 2015Article
- Innovation and behavioral flexibility in wild redfronted lemurs (Eulemur rufifrons).Animal cognition · 2015Article
- Infectious disease, behavioural flexibility and the evolution of culture in primates.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015Article
- Apes have culture but may not know that they do.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
- Memory, transmission and persistence of alternative foraging techniques in wild common marmosets.Animal behaviour · 2014Article
- Public information use in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens).Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983) · 2014Article
- Individual consistency and flexibility in human social information use.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2014Article
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- Uncovering the cultural knowledge of sanctuary apes.Communicative & integrative biology · 2013Article
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Field experiments can provide compelling demonstrations of social learning in wild populations. Social learning has been experimentally demonstrated in at least 23 field experiments, in 20 species, covering a range of contexts, such as foraging preferences and techniques, habitat choice, and predator avoidance. We review experimental approaches taken in the field and with wild animals brought into captivity and note how these approaches can be extended. Relocating individuals, introducing trained individual demonstrators or novel behaviors into a population, or providing demonstrator-manipulated artifacts can establish whether and how a particular act can be socially transmitted in the wild and can help elucidate the benefits of social learning. The type, strength, and consistency of presented social information can be varied, and the provision of conditions favoring the performance of an act can both establish individual discovery rates and help determine whether social information is needed for acquisition. By blocking particular avenues of social transmission or removing key individuals, routes of transmission in wild populations can be investigated. Manipulation of conditions proposed to favor social learning can test mathematical models of the evolution of social learning. We illustrate how field experiments are a viable, vital, and informative approach to the study of social learning.
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