Spontaneous reoccurrence of “scooping”, a wild tool-use behaviour, in naïve chimpanzees

Modern human technological culture depends on social learning. A widespread assumption for chimpanzee tool-use cultures is that they, too, are dependent on social learning. However, we provide evidence to suggest that individual learning, rather than social learning, is the driver behind determining...

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Main Authors: Elisa Bandini, Claudio Tennie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2017-09-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/3814.pdf