Towards a Biology of Traditions

By D. Fragaszy, Susan K. Perry. 2003

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

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Socially learned foraging behaviour in wild black bears, Ursus americanus (2008, background): “Furthermore, definitions of tradition and culture vary, leading to varied conclusions (Fragaszy & Perry 2003).”
Can environmental heterogeneity explain individual foraging variation in wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.)? (2007, unknown): “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).”
Ecology of culture: do environmental factors influence foraging tool use in wild chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus? (2013, unknown): “…‘method of exclusion’ (e.g. Whiten et al. 1999; Krützen et al. 2007), also called the ‘geographical method’ (van Schaik et al. 2003; van Schaik 2009), ‘method of elimination’ (van Schaik 2003), ‘group comparison method’ (Fragazy & Perry 2003) or ‘ethnographic method’ [sic] (Laland & Janik 2006).”
Experimental evidence for social transmission of food acquisition techniques in wild meerkats (2009, background): “…addition to observational and laboratory studies, allowing researchers to examine patterns of social information transmission within natural groups and determine whether social learning can lead to the establishment of group-typical behavioural patterns or traditions (Fragaszy & Perry 2003).”
Developmental evidence for foraging traditions in wild bottlenose dolphins (2009, background): “Thus, these behaviours appear to meet the definition of ‘traditions’, ‘enduring behaviour patterns shared among members of a group that depend to a measurable degree on social contributions to individual learning, resulting in shared practices among members of a group’ (Fragaszy & Perry 2003).”
Stone tool use in wild bearded capuchin monkeys, Cebus libidinosus. Is it a strategy to overcome food scarcity? (2012, background): “How tool use evolved as behavioural innovation and how it is acquired by individuals and maintained in populations interest a wide variety of scientists concerned with the origin of technological culture (e.g. Fragaszy & Perry 2003).”
Bearded capuchin monkeys' and a human's efficiency at cracking palm nuts with stone tools: field experiments (2010, background): “In this sense, nut cracking is likely to be a tradition: social context aids its acquisition (Fragaszy & Perry 2003; da Silva 2008).”