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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 (“aethip...

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Main Authors: van de Waal, Erica, Whiten, Andrew
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3468485/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23071698
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0047008
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