Conservatism and “copy-if-better” in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

• Published in: Animal cognition Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 575 - 579
• Main Authors: van Leeuwen, Edwin J. C., Call, Josep
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.05.2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Animal behavior; Animal cognition; Animals; Behavior, Animal; Behavioral Sciences; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Choice Behavior; Decision making; Female; Imitative Behavior; Life Sciences; Male; Monkeys & apes; Pan troglodytes - psychology; Psychology Research; Reward; Short Communication; Social Learning; Zoology; Decision-making; Social learning; Chimpanzees; Culture

Social learning is predicted to evolve in socially living animals provided the learning process is not random but biased by certain socio-ecological factors. One bias of particular interest for the emergence of (cumulative) culture is the tendency to forgo personal behaviour in favour of relatively...