猩猩学习方式各不相同

Youngsters who combine different forms of learning develop broader survival skills Animal behaviour Christa Lesté-Lasserre YOUNG orangutans who spend little time working out for themselves how to build a broad diet can partly compensate by watching how other orangutans choose what to eat. The findings suggest that orangutans have different strategies for developing broad survival skills, says Revathe Thillaikumar at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany. Young orangutans acquire a substantial body of knowledge before they can survive independently, including which foods are safe to eat, where to find them and how to process them. …