Animal imitation.

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Imitating Interactive Intelligence (2020, background): ““Program-level imitation,” where an individual recognises the gist of a complex task, shifts the burden of learning from tabula rasa exploration to refinement through practice (Byrne and Russon, 1998; Byrne, 2009).”
Primate Cognition (2010, background): “Although apes acquire new behaviors through social learning both in the wild and captivity (Byrne, 2009; Whiten, in press), in contrast to such passive or ‘‘exploitative’’ social learning in nonhuman primate groups, human cultural traditions are propagated through unique levels of imitative…”