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Animal culture: conservation in a changing world [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesSocial learning and animal culture can influence conservation outcomes in significant ways. Culture is a dynamic phenomenon; socially learned behaviours can be transmitted within and/or between generations and among populations, which can facilitate resilience, or in other circumstances generate vulnerability.
Philippa Brakes +2 more
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Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database. [PDF]
Sci DataAbstract Socially transmitted behaviors are widespread across the animal kingdom, yet there is a lack of comprehensive datasets documenting their distribution and ecological significance. Knowledge of animal behavioral traditions could be essential for understanding many species’ responses to anthropogenic disturbances and further ...
Basava K +6 more
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Animals, 2023 Cetaceans are well known for their unique behavioral habits, such as calls and tactics. The possibility that these are acquired through social learning continues to be explored. This study investigates the ability of a young beluga whale to imitate novel
José Zamorano-Abramson +1 more
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From Beethoven to Beyoncé: Do Changing Aesthetic Cultures Amount to “Cumulative Cultural Evolution?”
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Culture can be defined as “group typical behaviour patterns shared by members of a community that rely on socially learned and transmitted information” (Laland and Hoppitt, 2003, p. 151).
Natalie C. Sinclair +4 more
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Animal Culture and Animal Welfare
Philosophy of Science, 2022 AbstractFollowing recent arguments that cultural practices in wild animal populations have important conservation implications, we argue that recognizing captive animals as cultural has important welfare implications. Having a culture is of deep importance for cultural animals, wherever they live.
Simon Fitzpatrick, Kristin Andrews
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Safeguarding human–wildlife cooperation
Conservation Letters, 2022 Human–wildlife cooperation occurs when humans and free‐living wild animals actively coordinate their behavior to achieve a mutually beneficial outcome.
Jessica E. M. van der Wal +42 more
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Using nonhuman culture in conservation requires careful and concerted action
Conservation Letters, 2022 Discussions of how animal culture can aid the conservation crisis are burgeoning. As scientists and conservationists working to protect endangered species, we call for reflection on how the culture concept may be applied in practice.
Susana Carvalho +20 more
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Social learning through associative processes: a computational theory [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Social transmission of information is a key phenomenon in the evolution of behaviour and in the establishment of traditions and culture. The diversity of social learning phenomena has engendered a diverse terminology and numerous ideas about underlying ...
Johan Lind +2 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Wild chimpanzee tool use is highly diverse and, in many cases, exhibits cultural variation: tool-use behaviours and techniques differ between communities and are passed down generations through social learning. Honey dipping – the use of sticks or leaves
Joana Bessa +5 more
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Migratory convergence facilitates cultural transmission of humpback whale song [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Cultural transmission of behaviour is important in a wide variety of vertebrate taxa from birds to humans. Vocal traditions and vocal learning provide a strong foundation for studying culture and its transmission in both humans and cetaceans.
Clare Owen +10 more
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