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19 - Social Learning and Teaching Overview

from Part IV - Social Learning and Teaching

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2021

By
Rachel L. Kendal
Edited by
Allison B. Kaufman ,
Josep Call  and
James C. Kaufman
Allison B. Kaufman
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut
Josep Call
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Scotland
James C. Kaufman
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut
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Summary

This chapter is an overview of the field of animal social learning (including teaching). It covers how and why social learning is studied in both captive and wild animals, by researchers from various fields with different agendas.I outline the state of play, in studies of captive and wild animals, regarding (i) the various ways in which individuals may learn socially (social learning processes), (ii) the biases they may have in this learning (social learning strategies or transmission biases), and (iii) the evidence for culture and cumulative culture.The interdisciplinary nature of the field is emphasized, through discussion of its influences on theories regarding modularity in the brain (the biological basis of social learning), the evolution of social intelligence, and animal conservation and welfare.

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social learningteachinglearning animal culturecumulative culturesocial learning processessocial learning strategiessocial intelligencecultural intelligence.
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The Cambridge Handbook of Animal Cognition , pp. 443 - 471
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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