Social learning and spread of alternative means of opening an artificial fruit inÂ four groups of vervet monkeys

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
10971079	Animal Behaviour	2013	6 Pages	PDF

Abstract

âº Different methods of opening artificial fruits spread in groups they were seeded in. âº Vervets differentially copied door lift or door slide methods of opening. âº Vervets also copied the detail of left slide versus right slide of door. âº Group differences were maintained over the 100 openings recorded in each group.

Keywords

Cultural transmission Imitation tradition vervet monkey Chlorocebus aethiops Social learning

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Life Sciences Agricultural and Biological Sciences Animal Science and Zoology

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Social learning and spread of alternative means of opening an artificial fruit inÂ four groups of vervet monkeys

Authors

Erica van de Waal, Nicolas ClaidiÃ¨re, Andrew Whiten,