Noting important recent discoveries, we review primate social learning, traditions and
culture, together with associated findings about primate brains. We survey our current …

Background Studying animal cognition in a social setting is associated with practical and
statistical challenges. However, conducting cognitive research without disturbing species …

The type and variety of learning strategies used by individuals to acquire behaviours in the
wild are poorly understood, despite the presence of behavioural traditions in diverse taxa …

Summary Social network analyses [1–5] and experimental studies of social learning [6–10]
have each become important domains of animal behavior research in recent years yet have …

Social network analysis is increasingly common in studying complex interactions among
individuals. Across a range of primates, high‐ranking adults are generally more socially …

Despite playing a pivotal role in the inception of animal culture studies, macaque social
learning is surprisingly understudied. Social learning is important to survival and influenced …

The capacity to use information provided by others to guide behavior is a widespread
phenomenon in animal societies. A standard paradigm to test if and/or how animals use and …

Animals must learn foraging skills to successfully survive and reproduce but the sources of
interindividual variation in learning are poorly understood. For example, there is little …

This study demonstrates for the first time deferred imitation of novel actions in dogs (Canis
familiaris) with retention intervals of 1.5 min and memory of familiar actions with intervals …

This study shows evidence of a domestic cat (Felis catus) being able to successfully learn to
reproduce human-demonstrated actions based on the Do as I Do paradigm. The subject …