Prestige Affects Cultural Learning in Chimpanzees

Victoria Horner; Darby Proctor; Kristin E. Bonnie; Andrew Whiten; Frans B. M. de Waal

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010625

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Prestige Affects Cultural Learning in Chimpanzees

Victoria Horner ,

* E-mail: vhorner@emory.edu

Affiliation Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States of America
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Darby Proctor,

Affiliation Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States of America
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Kristin E. Bonnie,

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin, United States of America
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Andrew Whiten,

Affiliation Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Frans B. M. de Waal

Affiliation Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States of America
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Prestige Affects Cultural Learning in Chimpanzees

Victoria Horner,
Darby Proctor,
Kristin E. Bonnie,
Andrew Whiten,
Frans B. M. de Waal

Published: May 19, 2010
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010625

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Subordinates imitating dominants and dominants imitating subordinates.

Posted by jfturmel on 18 Jun 2010 at 13:39 GMT

Dominant chimpanzees of a group could also imitate chimpanzees of a lower rank when chimpanzees of a lower rank are displaying innovative behaviours enabling them to obtain resources desired by dominant chimpanzees, which can happen when chimpanzees of a lower rank are deprived of resources by dominant chimpanzees and are displaying innovative behaviours to obtain resources necessary for their survival and reproduction. It can be wandered if dominant chimpanzees can also be aggressive toward lower ranked chimpanzees to obtain the resources instead of them after that lower ranked chimpanzees have displayed the innovative behaviours enabling resource acquisition for survival and reproduction in an environment.

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Subordinates imitating dominants and dominants imitating subordinates.

Posted by jfturmel on 18 Jun 2010 at 13:39 GMT