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Is cetacean social learning unique?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Vincent M. Janik
Affiliation:
Sea Mammal Research Unit, School of Biology, Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St. Andrews, Fife KY16 8LB, United Kingdom vj@st-and.ac.uk
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Abstract

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Studies on captive dolphins have shown that they are capable ofsocial learning. However, ethnographic data are less conclusive andmany examples given for social learning can be explained in otherways. Before we can claim that cetacean culture is unique we needmore rigorous studies which are fortunately not as difficult asRendell and Whitehead seem to think.

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© 2001 Cambridge University Press