Teaching Young Children And Chimpanzees New Tricks

Very little is known how wild chimpanzees learn behaviours such as foraging for food. But new research from the University of St Andrews, published in the Journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, has found that chimpanzees are heavily dependent on fellow chimps as role models’ to learn new behaviours.There has been much debate amongst scientists about whether communities of chimpanzees copy behaviour from each other or work out how to carry out tasks themselves.

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Filed under: Biology on January 12th, 2008