Chapter 3 Social Processes Influencing Learning in Animals: A Review of the Evidence

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Experimental evidence for social transmission of food acquisition techniques in wild meerkats (2009, background): “Rather than attempting to identify imitation, our aim was to examine the extent to which techniques could spread through less cognitively demanding mechanisms such as local and stimulus enhancement (Hoppitt & Laland 2008).”
Nine-spined sticklebacks deploy a hill-climbing social learning strategy (2009, background): “…1985; Galef 1992; Tomasello 1994), but recent evidence for imitation (now observed in 5 species of mammal discounting humans and 6 species of birds; Hoppitt and Laland 2008) and teaching (observed in meerkats and ants; Franks and Richardson 2006; Thornton and McAuliffe 2006) in animals undermines…”