Adult cleaner wrasse outperform capuchin monkeys, chimpanzees and orang-utans in a complex foraging task derived from cleaner--client reef fish cooperation.

Adult cleaner wrasse outperform capuchin monkeys, chimpanzees and orang-utans in a complex foraging task derived from cleaner--client reef fish cooperation.

The insight that animals' cognitive abilities are linked to their evolutionary history, and hence their ecology, provides the framework for the comparative approach. Despite primates renowned dietary complexity and social cognition, including cooperative abilities, we here demonstrate that clea...

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Main Authors: Lucie H Salwiczek, Laurent Prétôt, Lanila Demarta, Darby Proctor, Jennifer Essler, Ana I Pinto, Sharon Wismer, Tara Stoinski, Sarah F Brosnan, Redouan Bshary
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3504063?pdf=render

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