Examining the mechanisms underlying the acquisition of animal tool behaviour

Inter-aviary distance and visual access influence conservation breeding outcomes in a territorial, endangered bird

(2020) Alison M. Flanagan et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Individual acquisition of “stick pounding” behavior by naïve chimpanzees

(2019) Elisa Bandini et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Cultural variation between neighbouring communities of chimpanzees at Gombe, Tanzania

(2019) Alejandra Pascual-Garrido   Scientific Reports

Inexperienced preys know when to flee or to freeze in front of a threat

(2019) Marie Hébert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Enquire within: cultural evolution and cognitive science

(2018) Cecilia Heyes   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cumulative culture in the laboratory: methodological and theoretical challenges

(2018) Helena Miton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Naive, captive long-tailed macaques ( Macaca fascicularis fascicularis ) fail to individually and socially learn pound-hammering, a tool-use behaviour

(2018) Elisa Bandini et al.   Royal Society Open Science

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

(2018) Christian Rutz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Acquisition of a socially learned tool use sequence in chimpanzees: Implications for cumulative culture

(2017) Gillian L. Vale et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Social learning, culture and the ‘socio-cultural brain’ of human and non-human primates

(2017) Andrew Whiten et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Cumulative cultural learning: Development and diversity

(2017) Cristine H. Legare   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spontaneous reoccurrence of “scooping”, a wild tool-use behaviour, in naïve chimpanzees

(2017) Elisa Bandini et al.   PeerJ

Food cleaning in gorillas: Social learning is a possibility but not a necessity

(2017) Damien Neadle et al.   PLoS One

Young children copy cumulative technological design in the absence of action information

(2017) E. Reindl et al.   Scientific Reports

Discovery of species-wide tool use in the Hawaiian crow

(2016) Christian Rutz et al.   NATURE

Behavioral Variation in Gorillas: Evidence of Potential Cultural Traits

(2016) Martha M. Robbins et al.   PLoS One

Foundations of cumulative culture in apes: improved foraging efficiency through relinquishing and combining witnessed behaviours in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

(2016) Sarah J. Davis et al.   Scientific Reports

Cognitive Demands of Lower Paleolithic Toolmaking

(2015) Dietrich Stout et al.   PLoS One

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

Social Network Analysis Shows Direct Evidence for Social Transmission of Tool Use in Wild Chimpanzees

(2014) Catherine Hobaiter et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Embryonic Learning of Vocal Passwords in Superb Fairy-Wrens Reveals Intruder Cuckoo Nestlings

(2012) Diane Colombelli-Négrel et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Culture and Geographic Variation in Orangutan Behavior

(2011) Michael Krützen et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Social learning and evolution: the cultural intelligence hypothesis

(2011) C. P. van Schaik et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social learning in New Caledonian crows

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

Genetic and 'cultural' similarity in wild chimpanzees

(2010) K. E. Langergraber et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Clever animals and killjoy explanations in comparative psychology

(2010) Sara J. Shettleworth   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

How to crack nuts: acquisition process in captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) observing a model

(2009) Satoshi Hirata et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture

(2009) C. Tennie et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES