Community through Culture: From Insects to Whales

A framework for studying social complexity

(2019) Peter M. Kappeler   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Evaluation of Growth, Survival, and Recruitment of Chinook Salmon in Southeast Alaska Rivers

(2019) Cory J. Graham et al.   TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY

Human impact erodes chimpanzee behavioral diversity

(2019) Hjalmar S. Kühl et al.   SCIENCE

Animal cultures matter for conservation

(2019) Philippa Brakes et al.   SCIENCE

Boom to bust? Implications for the continued rapid growth of the eastern Australian humpback whale population despite recovery

(2019) Michael J. Noad et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Cultural Evolution in Animals

(2019) Andrew Whiten   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The reach of gene–culture coevolution in animals

(2019) Hal Whitehead et al.   Nature Communications

Costly culture: differences in nut-cracking efficiency between wild chimpanzee groups

(2018) Lydia V. Luncz et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Culture and cultural evolution in birds: a review of the evidence

(2018) Lucy M. Aplin   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Corvid Technologies: How Do New Caledonian Crows Get Their Tool Designs?

(2018) Christian Rutz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Consequences of culturally-driven ecological specialization: Killer whales and beyond

(2018) Hal Whitehead et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Habitat use of culturally distinct Galápagos sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus clans

(2018) A Eguiguren et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Cultural flies: Conformist social learning in fruitflies predicts long-lasting mate-choice traditions

(2018) Etienne Danchin et al.   SCIENCE

The extension of biology through culture

(2017) Andrew Whiten et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Gene–culture coevolution in whales and dolphins

(2017) Hal Whitehead   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A second inheritance system: the extension of biology through culture

(2017) Andrew Whiten   Interface Focus

Kin-based cultural transmission of tool use in wild chimpanzees

(2017) Noemie Lamon et al.   Science Advances

Observational social learning and socially induced practice of routine skills in immature wild orang-utans

(2016) Caroline Schuppli et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The multiple functions of male song within the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae ) mating system: review, evaluation, and synthesis

(2016) Louis M. Herman   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Nurturant behavior toward dead conspecifics in free-ranging mammals: new records for odontocetes and a general review

(2016) Melissa A. L. Reggente et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Associative Mechanisms Allow for Social Learning and Cultural Transmission of String Pulling in an Insect

(2016) Sylvain Alem et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Socially segregated, sympatric sperm whale clans in the Atlantic Ocean

(2016) Shane Gero et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Population structure of humpback whales in the western and central South Pacific Ocean as determined by vocal exchange among populations

(2015) Ellen C. Garland et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Vocal Learning in the Functionally Referential Food Grunts of Chimpanzees

(2015) Stuart K. Watson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Multilevel animal societies can emerge from cultural transmission

(2015) Maurício Cantor et al.   Nature Communications

Assessing the design and power of capture-recapture studies to estimate demographic parameters for the Endangered Oceania humpback whale population

(2015) EL Carroll et al.   Endangered Species Research

The extent of cultural variation between adjacent chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) communities; A microecological approach

(2014) Lydia V. Luncz et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Tradition over trend: Neighboring chimpanzee communities maintain differences in cultural behavior despite frequent immigration of adult females

(2014) Lydia V. Luncz et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds

(2014) Lucy M. Aplin et al.   NATURE

Dynamics of Social Behavior in Fruit Fly Larvae

(2014) Zachary Durisko et al.   PLoS One

The interplay between social networks and culture: theoretically and among whales and dolphins

(2013) M. Cantor et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Tool use by aquatic animals

(2013) J. Mann et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

Network-Based Diffusion Analysis Reveals Cultural Transmission of Lobtail Feeding in Humpback Whales

(2013) J. Allen et al.   SCIENCE

Modelling the emergence and stability of a vertically transmitted cultural trait in bottlenose dolphins

(2012) Anna M. Kopps et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Cultural traditions and the evolution of reproductive isolation: ecological speciation in killer whales?

(2012) RÜDIGER RIESCH et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Killer whale ecotypes: is there a global model?

(2012) P. J. N. de Bruyn et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Social complexity as a proximate and ultimate factor in communicative complexity

(2012) T. M. Freeberg et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Dynamic Horizontal Cultural Transmission of Humpback Whale Song at the Ocean Basin Scale

(2011) Ellen C. Garland et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Animal social networks as substrate for cultural behavioural diversity

(2011) Hal Whitehead et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Elephant behaviour and conservation: social relationships, the effects of poaching, and genetic tools for management

(2011) ELIZABETH A. ARCHIE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Competing Conservation Objectives for Predators and Prey: Estimating Killer Whale Prey Requirements for Chinook Salmon

(2011) Rob Williams et al.   PLoS One

Cognitive culture: theoretical and empirical insights into social learning strategies

(2011) Luke Rendell et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

The social structure of New Caledonian crows

(2010) J.C. Holzhaider et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Simulation of information propagation in real-life primate networks: longevity, fecundity, fidelity

(2010) Bernhard Voelkl et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Age-related multi-year associations in female humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)

(2010) Christian Ramp et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Social learning in a non-social reptile (Geochelone carbonaria)

(2010) A. Wilkinson et al.   Biology Letters

Evidence for social learning in wild lemurs (Lemur catta)

(2010) R. L. Kendal et al.   LEARNING & BEHAVIOR

Identifying teaching in wild animals

(2010) A. Thornton et al.   LEARNING & BEHAVIOR

Social learning in New Caledonian crows

(2010) J. C. Holzhaider et al.   LEARNING & BEHAVIOR

Do transmission mechanisms or social systems drive cultural dynamics in socially structured populations?

(2009) Charles L. Nunn et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Experimental evidence for social transmission of food acquisition techniques in wild meerkats

(2009) Alex Thornton et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Experimental evidence for teaching in wild pied babblers

(2007) Nichola J. Raihani et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR