Food Neophobia and Social Learning Opportunities in Great Apes

Free-ranging Sichuan snub-nosed monkeysRhinopithecus roxellana:Neophobia, neophilia, or both?

(2016) Weiwei Fu et al.   Current Zoology

A behavioral view on chimpanzee personality: Exploration tendency, persistence, boldness, and tool-orientation measured with group experiments

(2013) Jorg J.M. Massen et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Personality predicts decision making only when information is unreliable

(2013) Alecia J. Carter et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Influence of personality, age, sex, and estrous state on chimpanzee problem-solving success

(2013) Lydia M. Hopper et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Social learning of feeding behaviour in pigs: Effects of neophobia and familiarity with the demonstrator conspecific

(2013) Jaime Figueroa et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Leaf Surface Roughness Elicits Leaf Swallowing Behavior in Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and Bonobos (P. paniscus), but not in Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) or Orangutans (Pongo abelii)

(2013) Claudia Menzel et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Potent Social Learning and Conformity Shape a Wild Primate's Foraging Decisions

(2013) E. van de Waal et al.   SCIENCE

Recent decline in suitable environmental conditions for African great apes

(2012) Jessica Junker et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Chimpanzees’ socially maintained food preferences indicate both conservatism and conformity

(2011) Lydia M. Hopper et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Neophobia and Learning Mechanisms: How Captive Orangutans Discover Medicinal Plants

(2011) Erik Gustafsson et al.   FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA

Unusual feeding behavior in wild great apes, a window to understand origins of self-medication in humans: Role of sociality and physiology on learning process

(2011) Shelly Masi et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Leaf swallowing behavior in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): biased learning and the emergence of group level cultural differences

(2010) Michael A. Huffman et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Prestige Affects Cultural Learning in Chimpanzees

(2010) Victoria Horner et al.   PLoS One

Social learning of diet and foraging skills by wild immature Bornean orangutans: implications for culture

(2009) Adrian V. Jaeggi et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

An experimental, comparative investigation of tool use in chimpanzees and gorillas

(2009) E.V. Lonsdorf et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Token transfers among great apes (Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus, Pan paniscus, and Pan troglodytes): Species differences, gestural requests, and reciprocal exchange.

(2009) Marie Pelé et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Begging for information: mother–offspring food sharing among wild Bornean orangutans

(2008) Adrian V. Jaeggi et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Age-dependent patterns of intensive observation on elders by free-ranging juvenile Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata yakui) within foraging context on Yakushima

(2008) Laurent Tarnaud et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) change their activity patterns in response to frugivory

(2008) Shelly Masi et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

‘Conformity’ in Norway rats?

(2008) Bennett G. Galef et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Skill mastery inhibits adoption of observed alternative solutions among chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

(2008) Christine Hrubesch et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Geophagy: soil consumption enhances the bioactivities of plants eaten by chimpanzees

(2008) Noémie Klein et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN