Rado Seminar - Dr Caroline Schuppli: Social learning and skill acquisition in wild orangutans
Radolfzell Seminar Series
- Datum: 05.11.2021
- Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30
- Vortragende: Dr Caroline Schuppli
- Raum: Online
- Gastgeber: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
- Kontakt: 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