Innovation and intelligence in orangutans

Russon, Anne E.; Schaik, Carel P. van; Kuncoro, Purwo; Ferisa, Agnes; Handayani, Dwi; Noordwijk, Maria A. van; Wich, S A; Atmoko, Sri Suci Utami; Setia, T Mitra

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“…Rehabilitant orangutans (ex-captives that are being cared for by humans in the enriched conditions of rescue centres and are often trained for release into the wild) are very similar to zoo orangutans in their response to humans and their general lack of neophobia (L. Damerius 2015, unpublished data). Indeed, the innovation repertoires of rehabilitants when in natural habitats significantly exceed those of wild populations with comparable intensity of observations (figure 3, taken from data tabulated in [22]). …”

Section: Orangutans In Zoos and Rescue Centresmentioning

confidence: 75%

“…Innovation repertoires of four wild populations of orangutans compared to those of four rehabilitant or recently introduced populations. The data are taken from Russon et al [22]. Note that the wild populations had many generations to produce the repertoires whereas the ex-captives had only one or at most two, because most individuals were caught as young infants who had virtually no learned skills.…”

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“…Orangutans are semi-solitary arboreal apes, living on the Southeast Asian islands of Sumatra and Borneo. They are relatively and absolutely large-brained [20], are among the best primate problem-solvers [12,21] and have large innovation repertoires, especially in the subsistence and comfort domains [5,22,23].…”

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The reluctant innovator: orangutans and the phylogeny of creativity

Schaik¹,

Burkart²,

Damerius³

et al. 2016

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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One contribution of 15 to a theme issue 'Innovation in animals and humans: understanding the origins and development of novel and creative behaviour'. Young orangutans are highly neophobic, avoid independent exploration and show a preference for social learning. Accordingly, they acquire virtually all their learned skills through exploration that is socially induced. Adult exploration rates are also low. Comparisons strongly suggest that major innovations, i.e. behaviours that have originally been brought into the population through individual invention, are made where ecological opportunities to do so are propitious. Most populations nonetheless have large innovation repertoires, because innovations, once made, are retained well through social transmission. Wild orangutans are therefore not innovative. In striking contrast, zoo-living orangutans actively seek novelty and are highly exploratory and innovative, probably because of positive reinforcement, active encouragement by human role models, increased sociality and an expectation of safety. The explanation for this contrast most relevant to hominin evolution is that captive apes generally have a highly reduced cognitive load, in particular owing to the absence of predation risk, which strongly reduces the costs of exploration. If the orangutan results generalize to other great apes, this suggests that our ancestors could have become more curious once they had achieved near-immunity to predation on the eve of the explosive increase in creativity characterizing the Upper Palaeolithic Revolution.

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Section: Orangutans In Zoos and Rescue Centresmentioning

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The reluctant innovator: orangutans and the phylogeny of creativity

Schaik¹,

Burkart²,

Damerius³

et al. 2016

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…We therefore reviewed the literature on tool use, innovations and culture in wild orangutans (Russon et al, 2009;van Schaik et al, 2009), and added 182 E. J. M. Meulman and C. P. van Schaik some unpublished observations from Suaq Balimbing, to construct a tool-use inventory for eight wild orangutan populations in Sumatra and Borneo (Figure 9.1). We trust that this provides us with the complete tool repertoire for orangutans at existing study sites (especially for the habitual tool variants), because tool-use behaviors are striking to observers and have been a focus of attention for at least three decades (van Schaik et al, 1996;Fox & Bin'Muhammad, 2002).…”

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Orangutan tool use and the evolution of technology

Meulman

Schaik

2013

Tool Use in Animals

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“…For example, apes have been shown to possess the ability to understand physical cause-and-effect, classification by function, and multiple uses for an item. They can also combine smaller behavioral competencies into larger behavioral components and programs (Russon et al, 2008). …”

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Applying Theoretical Models on Human Creativity to Animal Studies

Kaufman¹,

Kaufman²

2014

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-While creativity in humans has been actively studied for some time, it is only recently been a topic of interest in non-human animals. In order to take advantage of what is already known and to avoid redundancy, communication between those who study humans and animals is crucial. There are several models which are actively used in the study of creativity in humans which can be easily applied to animals to assist with the definition, classification, and characterization of behaviors.

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Innovation and intelligence in orangutans

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The reluctant innovator: orangutans and the phylogeny of creativity

The reluctant innovator: orangutans and the phylogeny of creativity

Orangutan tool use and the evolution of technology

Applying Theoretical Models on Human Creativity to Animal Studies

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