Potent social learning and conformity shape a wild primate's foraging decisions.

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_841ADEB90CAF
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Titre
Potent social learning and conformity shape a wild primate's foraging decisions.
Périodique
Science
Auteur⸱e⸱s
van de Waal E., Borgeaud C., Whiten A.
ISSN
1095-9203 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0036-8075
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2013
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
340
Numéro
6131
Pages
483-485
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Conformity to local behavioral norms reflects the pervading role of culture in human life. Laboratory experiments have begun to suggest a role for conformity in animal social learning, but evidence from the wild remains circumstantial. Here, we show experimentally that wild vervet monkeys will abandon personal foraging preferences in favor of group norms new to them. Groups first learned to avoid the bitter-tasting alternative of two foods. Presentations of these options untreated months later revealed that all new infants naïve to the foods adopted maternal preferences. Males who migrated between groups where the alternative food was eaten switched to the new local norm. Such powerful effects of social learning represent a more potent force than hitherto recognized in shaping group differences among wild animals.
Mots-clé
Animals, Cercopithecus aethiops/physiology, Female, Food Preferences/psychology, Male, Social Conformity, Taste, Transfer (Psychology), Zea mays
Pubmed
Web of science
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04/07/2017 7:17
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20/08/2019 14:43
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