Social Network Analysis Shows Direct Evidence for Social Transmission of Tool Use in Wild Chimpanzees
Catherine Hobaiter; Timothée Poisot; Klaus Zuberbühler; William Hoppitt; Thibaud Gruber · 2014 · PLoS Biology
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Abstract
Social network analysis methods have made it possible to test whether novel behaviors in animals spread through individual or social learning. To date, however, social network analysis of wild populations has been limited to static models that cannot precisely reflect the dynamics of learning, for instance, the impact of multiple observations across time. Here, we present a novel dynamic version of network analysis that is capable of capturing temporal aspects of acquisition--that is, how successive observations by an individual influence its acquisition of the novel behavior. We apply this mo
Abstract by Catherine Hobaiter; Timothée Poisot; Klaus Zuberbühler; William Hoppitt; Thibaud Gruber, PLoS Biology (2014) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001960