Six adult male rhesus monkeys did not learn from the choices of a conspecific shown in videos.

ABSTRACT: There is substantial evidence of group-specific behaviors in wild animals that are thought to be socially transmitted. Yet experimental studies with monkeys have reported conflicting evidence on the extent to which monkeys learn by observing their conspecifics. In this study, we tested the feasibility of using pre-recorded video demonstrations to investigate social learning from conspecifics in rhesus monkeys. With training, monkeys gradually learned to respond correctly following videos of a demonstrator, however, follow-up experiments revealed that this was not due to learning from the demonstrator monkey. In generalization tests with videos that were horizontally reversed, monkeys continued responding to the location they had associated with each video, rather than matching the new choi

SUBMITTER: Nasrini J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10406175 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature