SOCIAL LEARNING AND CULTURE IN CHIMPANZEES

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中利用 资源由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 调查员(PI)可能从NIH的另一个来源获得了主要资金， 并因此可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 该中心不一定是调查人员的机构。 该项目研究了室外安置的黑猩猩群体的社会学习过程，重点研究了以下几个问题： 社会传播的机制是什么：类人猿能够真正模仿吗？我们已经成功地设计了模仿测试，使用了“人造水果”(一种拼图盒子)，并发现了被广泛接受的积极结果。 行为是如何在群体中传播的？到目前为止，大多数研究都是让黑猩猩研究人类的行为，看看它是如何传播的，但我们想知道黑猩猩到黑猩猩的传播，这是自然栖息地唯一重要的传播方式。 我们正在对黑猩猩进行模拟实验。与以前进行的所有研究相比，这些研究的独特之处在于，黑猩猩将学习的模型将是相同的。因此，他们将向另一只黑猩猩学习，而不是向人类示威者学习。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. This project studies the process of social learning in outdoor housed groups of chimpanzees with a focus on several questions: What is the mechanism of social transmission: are apes capable of true imitation? We have been successful designing tests of imitation, using "artificial fruits" (a sort of puzzle box), and finding positive results that have been widely accepted. How does behavior spread in a group? Thus far, most studies have subjected chimpanzees to human behavior to see how it spreads, but we want to know about chimp-to-chimp transmission, which is the only kind of transmission that matters in the natural habitat. We are in the process of setting up imitation experiments on the chimpanzees. The unique feature of these studies, compared to all studies done before, is that the models from which the chimpanzees will learn will be conspecifics. So, instead of a human demonstrator, they will learn from another chimpanzee.