The development of social attention in orangutans: comparing peering behaviour in wild and zoo-housed individuals
Paulina Kukofka,
Richard Young,
Julia A. Kunz
et al.
Abstract:Social learning is the cornerstone of all cultural processes and plays a pivotal role during the evolution of cognition. To understand how social learning evolved, we have to look at the immediate and developmental conditions affecting individuals’ tendencies to attend to social information. We compared peering behaviour (i.e., close-range and sustained observation of the activities of conspecifics) in wild and zoo-housed immature Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) by analysing long-term data which included 31… Show more
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