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An investigation of social learning of tool-use in bottlenose dolphins ( <i>Tursiops truncatus</i> ) using a ball-up / ball-down task

2025-08-20

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Whether and how dolphins can engage in spontaneous, untrained social learning to solve novel tool problems via action- or result- (or other) social learning remains debated. In the present study we tested the spontaneous social learning abilities of six dolphins (all not trained to copy) on two tool-using tasks (what we call the ball-up / ball-down task) - using a dolphin demonstrator and a human demonstrator. Reg...

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Literature Corpus work: 24a140a2-cd20-538d-b3ba-8e304b39347c
DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.17.670717

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