ArticleRoyal Society open science2017
Social learning in otters.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- The flexibility of social learning and its conservation implications in mammals and beyond.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Captive Asian short-clawed otters (Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Social behavior mediates the use of social and personal information in wild jays.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Learning strategies and long-term memory in Asian short-clawed otters (Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- Wild primates copy higher-ranked individuals in a social transmission experiment.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Effects of food type and abundance on begging and sharing in Asian small-clawed otters (PeerJ · 2020Article
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- Wild chimpanzees select tool material based on efficiency and knowledge.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Naive, captive long-tailed macaques (Royal Society open science · 2018Article
- Social learning in otters.Royal Society open science · 2017Article
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Abstract
The use of information provided by others to tackle life's challenges is widespread, but should not be employed indiscriminately if it is to be adaptive. Evidence is accumulating that animals are indeed selective and adopt 'social learning strategies'. However, studies have generally focused on fish, bird and primate species. Here we extend research on social learning strategies to a taxonomic group that has been neglected until now: otters (subfamily Lutrinae). We collected social association data on captive groups of two gregarious species: smooth-coated otters (
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