Spontaneous emergence, imitation and spread of alternative foraging techniques among groups of vervet monkeys.
Animal social learning has become a subject of broad interest, but demonstrations of bodily imitation in animals remain rare. Based on Voelkl and Huber's study of imitation by marmosets, we tested four groups of semi-captive vervet monkeys presented with food in modified film canisters ("a...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2012
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