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An orangutan takes shelter beneath an umbrella made from branches. That animals can use tools in such sophisticated ways can be explained with the help of a new learning model for animal behavior.
Dec 4, 2016
EUREKALERT, JOHAN LIND
(See M. Enquist, J. Lind, and S. Ghirlanda, “The power of associative learning and the ontogeny of optimal behaviour,” Royal Society Open Science, doi:10.1098/rsos.160734, 2016.)
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