Capuchin monkeys learn best-payoff ways to open fruit from othersWild capuchin monkeys readily learn skills from each other — but that social learning is driven home by the payoff of learning a useful new skill. It’s the first demonstration of “payoff bias” learning in a wild animal, and could inform whether and how animals can adapt to rapidly changing conditions, for example due to climate change or reintroduction of species from captive breeding.“When animals learn, they can learn very (…) Capuchin monkeys learn best-payoff ways to open fruit from others Wild…
SOMA INKURUMonkey see, monkey do, depending on age, experience and efficiency
