Do as I do imitation in a steller sea lion Eumetopias jubatus
Masahiro Sasaki; Hinano Kinoshita; Akitsugu Konno · 2025 · Animal Cognition
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Abstract
Abstract The present study explored whether a well-socialized Steller sea lion named Hama could reproduce similar actions with human demonstrations using the “Do as I do” (DAID) paradigm. Hama had learned 50 types of behaviors, but her social learning ability was unknown. In Study 1, we trained Hama to produce simultaneous DAID responses. After introducing the DAID training, we conducted four tests to confirm Hama’s acquisition of demonstrator-matching behavior. We found that Hama successfully acquired the action-matching ability for human actions, not only with three trained actions but also
Abstract by Masahiro Sasaki; Hinano Kinoshita; Akitsugu Konno, Animal Cognition (2025) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: DOAJ · DOI 10.1007/s10071-025-01971-0