The question of animal culture.
The question of animal culture.
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10.1007/bf02692251
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1992-06-01
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Galef, B G
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Galef, B G
在本文中，我考虑动物的传统行为是否像人类的传统一样，是通过模仿学习传播的。回顾圈养灵长类动物解决问题的文献，并详细考虑两个被广泛引用的例子，即所谓的模仿学习和自由生活的灵长类动物的文化（日本猕猴的甘薯洗涤和黑猩猩的白蚁捕捞），表明非人类灵长类动物不会通过模仿学习解决问题。因此，将动物传统和人类文化视为同源（而不是类似），并将动物传统称为文化，可能会产生误导。
In this paper I consider whether traditional behaviors of animals, like traditions of humans, are transmitted by imitation learning. Review of the literature on problem solving by captive primates, and detailed consideration of two widely cited instances of purported learning by imitation and of culture in free-living primates (sweet-potato washing by Japanese macaques and termite fishing by chimpanzees), suggests that nonhuman primates do not learn to solve problems by imitation. It may, therefore, be misleading to treat animal traditions and human culture as homologous (rather than analogous) and to refer to animal traditions as cultural.