Research on social learning in animals has revealed a rich variety of cases where animals—
from caddis fly larvae to chimpanzees—acquire biologically important information by …

Although scientists are aware that humans share the same biological heritage as do all
other organisms on the planet, the reliance of Homo sapiens on culture and cooperation has …

Many animals, including humans, acquire valuable skills and knowledge by copying others.
Scientists refer to this as social learning. It is one of the most exciting and rapidly developing …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the social processes, influencing learning in
animals. Social learning can result in the social transmission of information through a …

In this paper, we review reports and present new empirical data from studies with marmosets
and dogs that address the correspondence problem of imitation research. We focus on the …

Observational learning is presumed to have occurred when an organism copies an
improbable action or action outcome that it has observed and the matching behavior cannot …

In her comprehensive and carefully crafted book, Gisela Kaplan demonstrates how
intelligent and emotional Australian birds can be. She describes complex behaviours such …

We argue that imitation is a learning response to unintelligible actions, especially to social
conventions. Various strands of evidence are converging on this conclusion, but further …

A fully automated procedure, involving computer-controlled stimulus presentation and
computer-recorded response measurement, was used for the first time to study imitation in …

Learning to avoid danger by observing others can be relatively safe, because it does not
incur the potential costs of individual trial and error. However, information gained through …