This review investigates the presence of young children's model-based cultural transmission
biases in social learning, arguing that such biases are adaptive and flexible. Section 1 offers …

Understanding the ways in which individuals cope with threats, respond to challenges, make
use of opportunities and mediate the harmful effects of their surroundings is important for …

Despite burgeoning interest in consistent individual differences in behaviour (animal
'personality'), the influence of social interactions on the performance of different behavioural …

This paper explores the role of maternal influences on the acquisition of a tool-using task in
wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in order to build on and complement …

There has been much interest in understanding the evolution of social learning.
Investigators have tried to understand when natural selection will favor individuals who …

Noise pollution is commonly associated with human environments and mounting evidence
indicates that noise has a variety of negative effects on wildlife. Noise has also been linked …

Social context has been shown to encourage, or to delay object exploration and learning.
This ambiguity might be due to factors such as social relationships and personality of the …

Social learning via the observation of or interaction with other individuals can allow animals
to obtain information about the local environment. Once social information is obtained …

Neophobia may constrain explorative behaviour, learning and innovation, while social
context may facilitate approach to novel objects and acceptance of novel food. We examined …

Social interactions present opportunities for both information and infection to spread through
populations. Social learning is often proposed as a key benefit of sociality, while infectious …