Environmental and Social Factors Associated with the Occurrence of Stone-Handling Behavior in a Captive Troop of Macaca fuscata
Stone-handling, a documented behavioral tradition in Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata), occurs in both captive and provisioned free-ranging troops. We utilize data systematically collected as part of a broader investigation of stonehandling behavior in a captive troop to elucidate the environmental and social factors responsible for its occurrence. We analyzed contexts of stone-handling over 18 mo […]
Artificially Generated Cultural Variation Between Two Groups of Captive Monkeys, Colobus guereza kikuyuensis
The majority of studies of social learning in primates have tested subjects in isolation and investigated the effects of learning over very short periods of time. We aimed to test for social learning in two social groups of colobus monkeys, Colobus guereza kikuyuensis. Subjects were shown video footage of familiar monkeys either pushing or pulling […]