In most studies of social learning in animals, no attempt has been made to examine the
nature of the strategy adopted by animals when they copy others. Researchers have …

We summarize 20 years of empirical and theoretical research on causes and functions of
social influences on foraging by animals. We consider separately studies of social influence …

Comparative psychologists interested in the evolution of intelligence have focused their
attention on social primates, whereas birds tend to be used as models of associative …

Many animals use tools but only humans are generally considered to have the cognitive
sophistication required for cumulative technological evolution. Three important …

Research in comparative social cognition addresses how challenges of social living have
formed the cognitive structures that control behaviours involved in communication, social …

Group-foraging ravens scatter-hoard when they are competing for food and, to some extent,
also raid the caches made by others. We investigated the effects of observational spatial …

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

Cultural transmission (CT) is implicit in many explanations of culture change. Formal CT
models were defined by anthropologists 30 years ago and have been a subject of active …

The effort to explain the imitative abilities of humans and other animals draws on fields as
diverse as animal behavior, artificial intelligence, computer science, comparative …

While many domestic and laboratory animals recognize familiar humans, such ability in wild
animals is only anecdotally known. Here we demonstrate experimentally that a cognitively …