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Active sharing of a novel, arbitrary innovation in captive cotton-top tamarins?

Gokcekus, Samin; Brügger, Rahel K; Burkart, Judith M (2021). Active sharing of a novel, arbitrary innovation in captive cotton-top tamarins? Behaviour, 158(1):51-67.

Abstract

Most cultural behaviours in primates stem from innovations that are beneficial since they provide access to food or comfort. Innovations that are seemingly purposeless and arbitrary, and nevertheless spread through a social group, are rarer but particularly relevant to understanding the evolutionary origin of culture. Here, we provide an anecdotal report of a series of non-instrumental woodchip manipulation and modification events in captive cotton-top tamarins. Intriguingly, woodchips were preferentially manipulated in a position that was readily visible to a partner in a different enclosure, and the innovation apparently spread to other individuals. Together, this suggests that the arbitrary innovation was actively shared with a conspecific, which is consistent with the pattern of transmission of another arbitrary innovation in cotton-top tamarins, namely stick-weaving.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:07 Faculty of Science > Department of Evolutionary Anthropology
Special Collections > NCCR Evolving Language
Special Collections > Centers of Competence > Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution
Dewey Decimal Classification:300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
Scopus Subject Areas:Life Sciences > Animal Science and Zoology
Life Sciences > Behavioral Neuroscience
Uncontrolled Keywords:Animal Science and Zoology, Behavioral Neuroscience
Language:English
Date:2021
Deposited On:19 Jan 2021 10:39
Last Modified:24 Oct 2024 01:40
Publisher:Brill
ISSN:0005-7959
OA Status:Hybrid
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1163/1568539x-bja10049
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