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The following is description of a manuscript in the final stages of drafting prior to submission. Rohan invites you to read the following, and consider attending to the preprint in order to help improve the research with constructive feedback. [Editor’s note: The study Rohan describes in this article has since been published in Cognition, and […]
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Elena spoke to Cultured Scene about the first paper from her PhD, which is currently under review. [Editor’s note: The paper discussed in this interview has since been published in Nature Communications and can be read here] The paper Cultured Scene: Tell us about your paper –what are the key findings? Elena Miu: This is […]
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Damien Neadle spoke to Cultured Scene about his recent publication and its making: Food cleaning in gorillas: Social learning is a possibility but not a necessity. The paper Cultured Scene: What is the key finding of your study? Damien Neadle: The key finding is simple, gorillas can display food cleaning (a behaviour recently suggested to […]
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Sylvain Alem and his colleagues trained bumblebees to manipulate a feeder by pulling small strings 1. Observer bees quickly picked up this behaviour and soon performed it themselves. Here, we talk about the “absurdity” of this observation and what it can tell us about cultural evolution. Cultured Scene: Lars Chittka, the senior author on your […]
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