About the Authors

Will Hoppitt

wjeh1@st-andrews.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom

Jamie Samson

Affiliation Kalahari Meerkat Project, Kuruman River Reserve, Van Zylsrus, Northern Cape, South Africa

Kevin N. Laland

Affiliation Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom

Alex Thornton

Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AT WH KL. Performed the experiments: AT JS. Analyzed the data: WH AT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WH. Wrote the paper: WH AT KL.