Migrant orangutan males use social learning to adapt to new habitat after dispersal

Abstract

Dispersal has been suggested to be challenging, especially for species that heavily rely on social learning for knowledge acquisition. One of the obstacles that migrants face is learning how to cope with an unfamiliar, new habitat, which may involve learning from resident individuals. So far, only very few studies have looked at social learning in migrants after dispersal. Here we examine how migrant male orangutans use a behavior called “peering” (an indicator of observational social learning), to learn from local individuals. In tot Show more