Anecdotal observations of socially learned vocalizations in harbor seals

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  • What: The authors report two formerly silent harbor seals who initiated vocalizations after having repeatedly observed a conspecific receiving food rewards for vocalizing. The authors propose that in this case social learning acted as a shortcut to acquiring food rewards compared to the comparatively costly asocial learning.
  • Who: ABC et al. from the Comparative Bioacoustics Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, the Netherlands School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, Scotland have published the Article: Anecdotal Observations of Socially Learned Vocalizations, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
  • Future: Although far from a controlled . . .

     

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