Non-chimp Animal Culture - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences


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Non-chimp Animal Culture Chimpanzees aren't the only animals that show glimmers of culture. Song birds, crows, whales, and even rats appear to behave in ways that approximate social custom or tradition sharing. Two recent examples of putative animal cultures come from apes in Southeast Asia, and a population of marine mammals that makes its home off the west coast of Australia.