Raising the level: orangutans solve the floating peanut task without visual feedback.

ABSTRACT: Chimpanzees and orangutans are able to generate innovative behaviors to solve complicated physical problems. For example, when presented with an out-of-reach peanut at the bottom of a vertical tube (floating peanut task-FPT), some of them spontaneously spit water into the tube until the peanut floats to the top. Yet, it is unclear whether this innovative solution results from repeating those actions that bring the peanut incrementally closer to the top or from anticipating the solution before acting. In the current study, we addressed this question by presenting three naïve orangutans with an opaque version of the FPT that prevented them from obtaining visual information about the effect of their actions on the position of the peanut. One of the subjects solved the opaque FPT in the very f

SUBMITTER: Sebastian-Enesco C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8800926 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature