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  2. Conduct and facilitate welfare assessments and applied welfare research on captive exotic animals.
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Social learning and spread of alternative means of opening an artificial fruit in four groups of vervet monkeys

Authors: Erica van de Waal, Nicolas Claidière, Andrew Whiten

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: chlorocebus aethiops, cultural transmission, imitation, social learning, tradition, vervet monkey

2013

Evidence for Contagious Behaviors in Budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus): An Observational Studyof Yawning and Stretching

Authors: M. L. Miller, A. C. Gallup, A. R. Vogel, S. M. Vicario, A. B. Clark

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: contagion, imitation, response facilitation, signal, social coordination, stretching, yawning

2012

Perspectives on Observational Learning in Animals

Authors: T.R. Zentall

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: emulation, imitation, observational learning, social facilitation, stimulus enhancement

2012

Do dogs distinguish rational from irrational acts?

Authors: Juliane Kaminski, Marie Nitzschner, Victoria Wobber, Claudio Tennie, Juliane Bräuer, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: canis familiaris, communication, dog, imitation, rationality

2011

Imitative pecking by budgerigars, Melopsittacus undulatus, over a 24 h delay

Authors: Charlotte Richards, Kieron Mottley, John Pearce, Cecilia Heyes

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: associative sequence learning, budgerigar, delayed imitation, imitation, melopsittacus undulatus, pecking, response facilitation, stepping, two-action test, video stimulus

2009

Convergence of calls as animals form social bonds, active compensation for noisy communication channels, and the evolution of vocal learning in mammals

Authors: Peter L. Tyack

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: noise compensation, vocal convergence, vocal learning, vocal production learning

2008

Experimental studies of traditions and underlying transmission processes in chimpanzees

Authors: Lydia M. Hopper, Antoine Spiteri, Susan P. Lambeth, Steven J. Schapiro, Victoria Horner, Andrew Whiten

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: *tool use, chimpanzee, culture, emulation, imitation, pan troglodytes, social learning, tradition

2007

Imitative learning by captive western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in a simulated food-processing task

Authors: Tara S. Stoinksi, Joanna L. Wrate, Nicky Ure, Andrew Whiten

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: cultural transmission, culture, foraging, gorilla gorilla gorilla, gorillas, imitation, primates

2001

Food-washing behaviour in tufted capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella, and crabeating macaques, Macaca fascicularis

Authors: Elisabetta Visalberghi, Dorothy M. Fragaszy

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: food-washing behavior

1990

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