In recent decades, a burgeoning literature has documented the cultural transmission of
behavior through social learning in numerous vertebrate and invertebrate species. One …

Neuroscience needs behavior. However, it is daunting to render the behavior of organisms
intelligible without suppressing most, if not all, references to life. When animals are treated …

When published in 1980, Benjamin B. Beck's Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to
catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use and manufacture in non-human …

Social network analysis methods have made it possible to test whether novel behaviors in
animals spread through individual or social learning. To date, however, social network …

Some researchers have claimed that chimpanzee and human culture rest on homologous
cognitive and learning mechanisms. While clearly there are some homologous mechanisms …

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Chimpanzees possess a large number of behavioral and cultural traits among nonhuman
species. The “disturbance hypothesis” predicts that human impact depletes resources and …

Entomophagy is widespread among nonhuman primates and is common among many
human communities. However, the extent and patterns of entomophagy vary substantially …

The majority of evidence for cultural behavior in animals has come from comparisons
between populations separated by large geographical distances that often inhabit different …

Large brains and behavioural innovation are positively correlated, species-specific traits,
associated with the behavioural flexibility animals need for adapting to seasonal and …