scholarly journals Cultural geographies of extinction: Animal culture among Scottish ospreys

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Garlick
Keyword(s):  
Animal Culture

Animal Culture or Animal Tradition?

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 54 (30) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Zentall
Keyword(s):  
Animal Culture

All-animal culture club

2010 ◽  
Vol 208 (2787) ◽  
pp. 38-41
Author(s):  
Kate Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Animal Culture

Animal culture is widespread

2021 ◽  
Vol 250 (3329) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Michael Le Page
Keyword(s):  
Animal Culture

A Brief History of Social Learning Research

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Hoppitt ◽  
Kevin N. Laland
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovations ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Behavioral Repertoire ◽  
History Of Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Learning Research ◽  
Evolution Of Mind ◽  
Animal Culture

This chapter provides a brief historical background to social learning research. The history of research into social learning and imitation dates back to Aristotle, who explicitly made the claim that animals acquire behavior through imitation and other forms of social learning. Aristotle was particularly impressed with the human imitative tendency. The three insights made in the fourth century BC—that humans are uncharacteristically reliant on imitative learning compared to other animals, that young children in particular acquire important aspects of their behavioral repertoire through copying, and that imitation appears intrinsically rewarding to children—are remarkably relevant to contemporary social learning research. The chapter examines how investigations of social learning have been central to research into the evolution of mind, the mechanisms of social learning, animal culture, the diffusion of innovations, child development, and cultural evolution.

scholarly journals Cultural flies: Conformist social learning in fruitflies predicts long-lasting mate-choice traditions

Science ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 362 (6418) ◽  
pp. 1025-1030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Etienne Danchin ◽  
Sabine Nöbel ◽  
Arnaud Pocheville ◽  
Anne-Cecile Dagaeff ◽  
Léa Demay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Mate Choice ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Cultural Inheritance ◽  
Theoretical Justification ◽  
Mating Preferences ◽  
Transmission Chain ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Local Traditions ◽  
Animal Culture

Despite theoretical justification for the evolution of animal culture, empirical evidence for it beyond mammals and birds remains scant, and we still know little about the process of cultural inheritance. In this study, we propose a mechanism-driven definition of animal culture and test it in the fruitfly. We found that fruitflies have five cognitive capacities that enable them to transmit mating preferences culturally across generations, potentially fostering persistent traditions (the main marker of culture) in mating preference. A transmission chain experiment validates a model of the emergence of local traditions, indicating that such social transmission may lead initially neutral traits to become adaptive, hence strongly selecting for copying and conformity. Although this situation was suggested decades ago, it previously had little empirical support.

scholarly journals Animal Culture: How a New Birdsong Went Viral

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (16) ◽  
pp. R957-R959
Author(s):  
David M. Logue ◽  
Jean-Baptiste Leca
Keyword(s):  
Animal Culture

Animal Culture

Science ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 340 (6131) ◽  
pp. 405-405
Keyword(s):  
Animal Culture

scholarly journals Animal culture is real but needs to be clearly defined

Nature ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 438 (7071) ◽  
pp. 1078-1078 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Whiten
Keyword(s):  
Animal Culture
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