Captive great apes tend to innovate simple tool behaviors quickly

A Motes‐Rodrigo, C Tennie - American Journal of Primatology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies have highlighted the important role that individual learning mechanisms and
different forms of enhancenment play in the acquisition of novel behaviors by naïve …

Leveling the playing field in studying cumulative cultural evolution: Conceptual and methodological advances in nonhuman animal research.

BS Rawlings, CH Legare, SF Brosnan… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Cumulative cultural evolution (CCE), the improvement of cultural traits over generations via
social transmission, is widely believed to be unique to humans. The capacity to build upon …

Naïve, adult, captive chimpanzees do not socially learn how to make and use sharp stone tools

E Bandini, C Tennie - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Although once regarded as a unique human feature, tool-use is widespread in the animal
kingdom. Some of the most proficient tool-users are our closest living relatives …