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dc.contributor.authorVale, Gillian L.
dc.contributor.authorDavis, Sarah J.
dc.contributor.authorvan de Waal, Erica
dc.contributor.authorSchapiro, Steven J.
dc.contributor.authorLambeth, Susan P.
dc.contributor.authorWhiten, Andrew
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-17T00:31:26Z
dc.date.available2018-01-17T00:31:26Z
dc.date.issued2017-02
dc.identifier.citationVale , G L , Davis , S J , van de Waal , E , Schapiro , S J , Lambeth , S P & Whiten , A 2017 , ' Lack of conformity to new local dietary preferences in migrating captive chimpanzees ' , Animal Behaviour , vol. 124 , pp. 135-144 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.12.007en
dc.identifier.issn0003-3472
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 248681923
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 59627ff8-25d5-4720-9640-bb8360481968
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85009268804
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000395510000016
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-2426-5890/work/65014004
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/12494
dc.descriptionG.L.V., S.D. and A.W. were funded by the John Templeton Foundation (Grant ID: 40128 to A.W. and K. Laland). Support for the chimpanzee colony came from NIHU42-OD-011197.en
dc.description.abstractConformity to the behavioural preferences of others can have powerful effects on intra-group behavioural homogeneity in humans, but evidence in animals remains minimal. In this study, we took advantage of circumstances in which individuals or pairs of captive chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, were “migrated” between groups, to investigate whether immigrants would conform to a new dietary population preference experienced in the group they entered, an effect suggested by recent fieldwork. Such ‘migratory-minority’ chimpanzees were trained to avoid one of two differently-coloured foods made unpalatable, before ‘migrating’ to, and then observing, a ‘local-majority’ group consume a different food colour. Both migratory-minority and local-majority chimpanzees displayed social learning, spending significantly more time consuming the previously unpalatable, but instead now edible, food, than did control chimpanzees who did not see immigrants eat this food, nor emigrate themselves. However, following the migration of migratory-minority chimpanzees, these control individuals and the local-majority chimpanzees tended to rely primarily upon personal information, consuming first the food they had earlier learned was palatable before sampling the alternative. Thus, chimpanzees did not engage in conformity in the context we tested; instead seeing others eat a previously unpalatable food led to socially learned and adaptive re-exploration of this now-safe option in both minority and majority participants.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofAnimal Behaviouren
dc.rights© 2016 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.12.007en
dc.subjectConformityen
dc.subjectCultureen
dc.subjectCultural transmission biasesen
dc.subjectSocial learningen
dc.subjectSocial learning strategiesen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.titleLack of conformity to new local dietary preferences in migrating captive chimpanzeesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorJohn Templeton Foundationen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolutionen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciencesen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.12.007
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2018-01-16
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347216303384en
dc.identifier.grantnumber40128en


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