ArticleCommunicative & integrative biology
The spread of a novel behavior in wild chimpanzees: New insights into the ape cultural mind.
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- Variation in cultural attitude, knowledge and individual motivational factors impact engagement and tool use in a field experiment in wild chimpanzees.Royal Society open science · 2026Article
- Inter-community behavioural variation confirmed through indirect methods in four neighbouring chimpanzee communities in Cantanhez NP, Guinea-Bissau.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- One Function One Tool? A Review on Mutual Exclusivity in Tool Use Learning in Human and Non-human Species.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- The zone of latent solutions and its relevance to understanding ape cultures.Biology & philosophy · 2020Article
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- Compound tool construction by New Caledonian crows.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Naive, captive long-tailed macaques (Royal Society open science · 2018Article
- Why developmental psychology is incomplete without comparative and cross-cultural perspectives.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016Review
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Abstract
For years, the animal culture debate has been dominated by the puzzling absence of direct evidence for social transmission of behavioral innovations in the flagship species of animal culture, the common chimpanzee. Although social learning of novel behaviors has been documented in captivity, critics argue that these findings lack ecological validity and therefore may not be relevant for understanding the evolution of culture. For the wild, it is possible that group-specific behavioral differences emerge because group members respond individually to unspecified environmental differences, rather than learning from each other. In a recent paper, we used social network analyses in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) to provide direct evidence for social transmission of a behavioral innovation, moss-sponging, to extract water from a tree hole. Here, we discuss the implications of our findings and how our new methodological approach could help future studies of social learning and culture in wild apes.
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