SOCIAL LEARNING AND CULTURE IN CHIMPANZEES

黑猩猩的社会学习和文化

• 批准号: 7958108
• 负责人: FRANS DE WAAL
• 金额: $ 4.39万
• 依托单位: EMORY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-05-01 至 2010-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7958108
• 关键词: Behavior; Boxing; Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects Database; Environment; Fruit; Funding; Grant; Habitats; Housing; Human; Institution; Learning; Modeling; Pan Genus; Pongidae; Primates; Process; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Series; Sorting - Cell Movement; Source; Testing; United States National Institutes of Health; design; research study; social; transmission process

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. During the reporting period we studied the process of social learning in outdoor housed groups of chimpanzees: What is the mechanism of social transmission: are apes capable of true imitation? This has been questioned by several investigators. We have been at the forefront designing tests of imitation, using "artificial fruits" (a sort of puzzle box), and finding positive results that have been widely accepted. How does behavior spread in a group? Thus far, most studies have subjected chimpanzees to human behavior to see how it spreads, but we want to know about chimp-to-chimp transmission, which is the only kind of transmission that matters in the natural habitat. We use puzzle boxes and a renovated testing facility and are in the process of imitation experiments on the chimpanzees. The unique feature of evaluating these studies, compared to all studies done before, is that the models from which the chimpanzees will learn will be conspecifics. This series of experiments matches more closely the processes of social transmission in the natural environment.

该副本是利用众多研究子项目之一 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源。子弹和 调查员（PI）可能已经从其他NIH来源获得了主要资金， 因此可以在其他清晰的条目中代表。列出的机构是 对于中心，这不一定是调查员的机构。 在报告期内，我们研究了户外住房的黑猩猩团体的社会学习过程： 社会传播的机制是什么：猿类能够真正模仿？几位调查人员对此进行了质疑。使用“人造水果”（一种拼图盒），我们一直处于最前沿的模仿测试，并找到已被广泛接受的积极结果。 行为如何在一个小组中传播？到目前为止，大多数研究都使黑猩猩采取了人类行为，以了解其传播是如何传播的，但是我们想了解黑猩猩到奇姆的传播，这是自然栖息地中唯一重要的传播。 我们使用拼图盒和经过翻新的测试设施，并正在黑猩猩进行模仿实验。与以前所做的所有研究相比，评估这些研究的独特特征是，黑猩猩学习的模型将是特定的。这一系列实验在自然环境中更匹配社会传播过程。