ArticleJournal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983)2014
Public information use in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens).
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- The influence of task difficulty, social tolerance and model success on social learning in Barbary macaques.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Empirical challenges from the comparative and developmental literature to the Shared Intentionality Theory - a review of alternative data on recursive mind reading, prosociality, imitation and cumulative culture.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- The pervasive role of social learning in primate lifetime development.Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2018Review
- A second inheritance system: the extension of biology through culture.Interface focus · 2017Review
- Culture extends the scope of evolutionary biology in the great apes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- Lack of conformity to new local dietary preferences in migrating captive chimpanzees.Animal behaviour · 2017Article
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Abstract
The discernment of resource quality is pertinent to many daily decisions faced by animals. Public information is a critical information source that promotes quality assessments, attained by monitoring others' performance. Here we provide the first evidence, to our knowledge, that chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) use public information to guide resource selection. Thirty-two chimpanzees were presented with two simultaneous video demonstrations depicting a conspecific acquiring resources at a fast (resource-rich) or slow (resource-poor) rate. Subsequently, subjects selected the resource-rich site above chance expectation. As a comparison, we report evidence of public information use in young children. Investigation of public information use in primates is pertinent, as it can enhance foraging success and potentially facilitate payoff-biased social learning.
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