Culture in whales and dolphins

By Luke Rendell, Hal Whitehead. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2001

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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US Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico marine mammal stock assessments - 2015 (2016, background): “…called “codas” that have distinct patterns and are apparently culturally transmitted (Watkins and Schevill 1977; Whitehead and Weilgart 1991; Rendell and Whitehead 2001), and based on degree of social affiliation, mixed groups of sperm whales (mixed-sex groups of females/immatures)…”
Darwin's mistake: Explaining the discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds (2008, neutral): “…time travel, culture, and so on – are not nearly as unique as we once thought (see, e.g., Bekoff et al. 2002; Call 2006; Clayton et al. 2003; de Waal & Tyack 2003; Matsuzawa 2001; Pepperberg 2002; Rendell & Whitehead 2001; Savage-Rumbaugh et al. 1998; Smith et al. 2003; Tomasello et al. 2003a).”
Can environmental heterogeneity explain individual foraging variation in wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.)? (2007, positive): “The importance of social learning in foraging variation has recently received considerable attention and debate (e.g., Heyes and Galef 1996; Whiten et al. 1999; Rendell and Whitehead 2001; Fragaszy and Perry 2003a; Laland and Hoppitt 2003).”
Diversity in trophic interactions of green sea turtles Chelonia mydas on a relatively pristine coastal foraging ground (2011, neutral): “…only inhabit a subset of habitats, or (6) ecological trade-offs result in variation among individuals in resource pools that are accessed (e.g. Rendell & Whitehead 2001, Estes Burkholder et al.: Green turtle trophic interaction diversity et al. 2003, Svanback &Persson 2004, Araújo & Gonzaga…”
Nine-spined sticklebacks deploy a hill-climbing social learning strategy (2009, background): “Allied with observations of advanced cognition, including sophisticated forms of social learning, in parrots and cetaceans (Pepperberg 1990; Rendell and Whitehead 2001; Heyes and Saggerson 2002), our findings support the view that enhanced social learning may be a manifestation of convergent…”
Role of Peers in Cultural Innovation and Cultural Transmission: Evidence from the Play of Dolphin Calves (2006, background): “Culture has been defined as information or behavior that is acquired from members of one’s species through social learning (Boyd & Richerson, 1996; Rendell & Whitehead, 2001).”
Evolution of the Size and Functional Areas of the Human Brain (2006, methodology): “Encephalization quotients (EQs) are widely used measures of relative brain size that take this empirical relationship between brain and body size into account.”
Cooperative problem solving in a social carnivore (2009, positive): “…performance of these same skills by nonprimates, including, for instance, teaching in meerkats (Thornton & McAuliffe 2006), culture in cetaceans (Noad et al. 2000; Rendall & Whitehead 2001), tool use in corvids (Hunt 1999; Weir et al. 2002) and transitive inference in fish (Grosenick et al. 2007).”
Ecology of culture: do environmental factors influence foraging tool use in wild chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus? (2013, background): “Culture has been identified in a number of animal taxa, including chimpanzees, orang-utans, Pongo pygmaeus and Pongo abelii, and cetaceans (Whiten et al. 1999; Rendell & Whitehead 2001; van Schaik et al. 2003).”
Movements, habitat use and feeding success of cultural clans of South Pacific sperm whales (2004, background): “Culture may be defined as information or behaviour shared by populations or subpopulations that is transmitted between individuals by some form of social learning (Rendell & Whitehead 2001a).”
Inclusive heritability: combining genetic and non-genetic information to study animal behavior and culture (2010, neutral): “There are two traditions in the study of animal culture, the classical anthropological approach (Rendell and Whitehead 2001, Lycett et al. 2007, Whiten 2007) and the evolutionary approach (Dugatkin 1996, 1998, White and Galef 2000, Danchin et al. 2004, Mesoudi et al. 2004, Laland and Janik 2006).”
Developmental evidence for foraging traditions in wild bottlenose dolphins (2009, background): “Bottlenose dolphins demonstrate complex cognitive abilities in laboratory settings (Marino et al. 2007) and show behavioural variation both between and within populations, which may be socially learned or ‘cultural’ (e.g. Rendell & Whitehead 2001; Mann & Sargeant 2003; Krützen et al. 2005).”