Neophilia, innovation and social learning: a study of intergeneric differences in callitrichid monkeys
By R. L. Day, R. L. Coe, Jeremy Kendal, Kevin N. Laland. 2003
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In a comparative study of neophilia, innovation and social attentiveness we exposed individuals in seven callitrichid species, from three genera, to novel extractive foraging tasks. The results revealed consistently shorter response latencies, higher levels of successful and unsuccessful manipulation, and greater attentiveness to the task and to conspecifics inLeontopithecus (lion tamarins) than in both Saguinus (tamarins) and Callithrix (marmosets). This is consistent with the hypothesis that species dependent upon manipulative and explorative foraging tend to be less neophobic and more innovative than other species. Furthermore, Callithrix appeared to be less neophobic than Saguinus; ifCallithrix is regarded as the greater specialist, this result is inconsistent with the hypothesis that neophobia is associated with foraging specialization. We consider the relevance of our findings to taxonomic relationships, and to technical and Machiavellian intelligence hypotheses and discuss the implications for captive breeding and reintroduction strategies.Copyright 2003 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd on behalf of The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.
Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology
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In Developmental Biology
In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
In Social Psychology
- Kevin N. Laland
- Simon M. Reader
- Alex Mesoudi
- L. Lefebvre
- Robin I. M. Dunbar
- D. Sol
- Tadeusz J. Kawecki
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- Who are the innovators? A field experiment with 2 passerine species (2011, unknown): “Studies using this ‘‘novel problem’’ approach reveal a significant amount of interspecific variation in problem-solving performance, with species that are generally more dependent on manipulative foraging and less neophobic being better at solving novel tasks (Webster and Lefebvre 2001; Day et al. 2”
- Social learning strategies (2004, background): “An exception are those of Day (2003; Day, Coe, Kendal, & Laland, 2003 ), who presented a series of novel puzzle box tasks to captive populations of callitrichid monkeys.”