Social information transfer in monkeys, apes, and hominids

Social Groups of Monkeys, Apes and Men

Sociologists and anthropologists recognise the 'face to face' group ?in which all the individuals meet each other in the course of the day's activities?as a primary group in all types of human society. This kind of group is similar to that which exists in sub-human primates. In a small human society, relationships tend to be personal and it matters a great deal more who a man is than what he do...

Ideational Behavior of Monkeys and Apes.

Primates (Lemurs, Lorises, Tarsiers, Monkeys and Apes)

The modern primates are a diverse order of mammals that includes lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkeys, apes and humans. They are united by a 65 My evolutionary history originally built on an adaptive foundation of tropical arboreality and so they share a collection of traits that are unique among mammals, such as an excellent sense of balance, acute vision, good hand–eye coordination, a large gra...

Social Learning and the Transmission of Culture in Monkeys, Apes and Ancestral Humans

Folia Primatol 2014;85:42–75 DOI: 10.1159/000357512 4th Iberian Primatological Congress Girona, Spain, October 2–5, 2013 Editors: Miquel Llorente, Olga Feliu, Girona , Fernando Peláez , Ana Morcillo , Madrid, Spain; Catarina Casanova , Lisboa, Portugal

Representing space and objects in monkeys and apes

Primate foraging can be construed as a set of interconnected problems that include finding food, selecting efficient travel routes, anticipating the positions of moving prey, and manipulating, and occasionally, extracting food items using tools. The evidence reviewed in this paper strongly suggests that both monkeys and apes use three types of representation (i.e., static, dynamic, and relation...