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SUBMITTER: Carter AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3961137 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Carter Alecia J AJ Marshall Harry H HH Heinsohn Robert R Cowlishaw Guy G
PeerJ 20140311
Social learning can play a critical role in the reproduction and survival of social animals. Individual differences in the propensity for social learning are therefore likely to have important fitness consequences. We asked whether personality might underpin such individual variation in a wild population of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus). We used two field experiments in which individuals had the opportunity to learn how to solve a task from an experienced conspecific demonstrator: exploitation ...[more]