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

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

(2017) Elisa Bandini et al.   PeerJ

Behavioral Variation in Gorillas: Evidence of Potential Cultural Traits

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

Young children spontaneously invent wild great apes’ tool-use behaviours

(2016) E. Reindl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2016) Sylvain Alem et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Not eating like a pig: European wild boar wash their food

(2015) Volker Sommer et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Hygienic tendencies correlate with low geohelminth infection in free-ranging macaques

(2015) Cecile Sarabian et al.   Biology Letters

Social learning by imitation in a reptile (Pogona vitticeps)

(2014) Anna Kis et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Food washing and placer mining in captive great apes

(2013) Matthias Allritz et al.   PRIMATES

Ecology of culture: do environmental factors influence foraging tool use in wild chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus?

(2012) Kathelijne Koops et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Evidence for Cultural Differences between Neighboring Chimpanzee Communities

(2012) Lydia V. Luncz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Social organization and the evolution of cumulative technology in apes and hominins

(2012) Gauri R. Pradhan et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Transmission fidelity is the key to the build-up of cumulative culture

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

Similarity in Food Cleaning Techniques within Matrilines in Wild Vervet Monkeys

(2012) Erica van de Waal et al.   PLoS One

Comparing ungulate dietary proxies using discriminant function analysis

(2011) Danielle Fraser et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Genetic and 'cultural' similarity in wild chimpanzees

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

Male and female western gorilla diet: Preferred foods, use of fallback resources, and implications for ape versus old world monkey foraging strategies

(2009) D. Doran-Sheehy et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Animal imitation

(2009) Richard W. Byrne   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture

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

Identifying Social Learning in Animal Populations: A New ‘Option-Bias’ Method

(2009) Rachel L. Kendal et al.   PLoS One

An experimental study of nettle feeding in captive gorillas

(2008) Claudio Tennie et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY