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Is cetacean social learning unique?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Vincent M. Janik
Vincent M. Janik
Affiliation:
Sea Mammal Research Unit, School of Biology, Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St. Andrews, Fife KY16 8LB, United Kingdomvj@st-and.ac.uk
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Abstract

Studies on captive dolphins have shown that they are capable of social learning. However, ethnographic data are less conclusive and many examples given for social learning can be explained in other ways. Before we can claim that cetacean culture is unique we need more rigorous studies which are fortunately not as difficult as Rendell and Whitehead seem to think.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 337 - 338
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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