Rado Seminar - Dr Caroline Schuppli: Social learning and skill acquisition in wild orangutans
Radolfzell Seminar Series
- Date: Nov 5, 2021
- Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Dr Caroline Schuppli
- Room: Online
- Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
- Contact: cavolio@ab.mpg.de
Abstract: Orangutans are the least sociable of all apes and inhabit a highly skill-intensive foraging niche. In this talk I will present our latest results on how young orangutans learn their subsistence skills through different types of social- and independent learning and how skill acquisition seems to be linked to life history parameters