Culture and social learning in baleen whales
Culture, the sharing of behaviors or information within a community acquired through some form of social learning from conspecifics, represents a “second inheritance system”. This assertion, while still controversial, is a clear indication that culture and the study of social learning in animals is...
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ftunstandrewcris:oai:research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk:publications/88f4c9bc-91be-415a-aea5-151baacbc3ae 2024-04-28T08:14:07+00:00 Culture and social learning in baleen whales Garland, Ellen Clare Carroll, Emma Louise Clark, Christopher W. Garland, Ellen C. 2022-07-03 https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/researchoutput/culture-and-social-learning-in-baleen-whales(88f4c9bc-91be-415a-aea5-151baacbc3ae).html https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98449-6_8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98449-6 https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/search?isn=9783030984489&rn=1 eng eng Springer Nature https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/researchoutput/culture-and-social-learning-in-baleen-whales(88f4c9bc-91be-415a-aea5-151baacbc3ae).html urn:ISBN:9783030984489 urn:ISBN:9783030984519 info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Garland , E C & Carroll , E L 2022 , Culture and social learning in baleen whales . in C W Clark & E C Garland (eds) , Ethology and behavioral ecology of mysticetes . Ethology and behavioral ecology of marine mammals , Springer Nature , Cham , pp. 177-191 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98449-6_8 Animal culture Social learning Cultural processes Song Migration Feeding Vocal learning Isotopes bookPart 2022 ftunstandrewcris https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98449-6_810.1007/978-3-030-98449-6 2024-04-09T14:43:22Z Culture, the sharing of behaviors or information within a community acquired through some form of social learning from conspecifics, represents a “second inheritance system”. This assertion, while still controversial, is a clear indication that culture and the study of social learning in animals is no longer a taboo subject. Some of the strongest evidence for culture in animals has come from the study of cetaceans; while the focus has typically been on the odontocetes (mainly sperm whales, killer whales, and bottlenose dolphins), baleen whales provide important, unique, and robust evidence for cultural processes. Baleen whales undertake a myriad of behaviors across a variety of contexts. Some of these behaviors have been investigated with a cultural lens and have clearly shown maternally directed (and thus culturally transmitted) site fidelity to breeding, feeding and migratory routes, dynamic cultural transmission of song, and social transmission of novel feeding techniques. Undertaking cultural studies in large, free-ranging cetaceans requires multiyear, long-term datasets with enough detail to track changes; such datasets are rare and take decades to accumulate. However, we are now seeing a number of such datasets come to light, and the results are spectacular. Here, we first provide an overview of culture and its transmission; we then highlight some of the clearest examples of baleen whale culture to date, concluding with research considerations. Culture and its influence on the lives of cetaceans can no longer be ignored as, to paraphrase some of the pioneers in the cetacean culture field, it is now clear that culture rules their [cetaceans’] lives. Book Part baleen whale baleen whales University of St Andrews: Research Portal |
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Culture, the sharing of behaviors or information within a community acquired through some form of social learning from conspecifics, represents a “second inheritance system”. This assertion, while still controversial, is a clear indication that culture and the study of social learning in animals is no longer a taboo subject. Some of the strongest evidence for culture in animals has come from the study of cetaceans; while the focus has typically been on the odontocetes (mainly sperm whales, killer whales, and bottlenose dolphins), baleen whales provide important, unique, and robust evidence for cultural processes. Baleen whales undertake a myriad of behaviors across a variety of contexts. Some of these behaviors have been investigated with a cultural lens and have clearly shown maternally directed (and thus culturally transmitted) site fidelity to breeding, feeding and migratory routes, dynamic cultural transmission of song, and social transmission of novel feeding techniques. Undertaking cultural studies in large, free-ranging cetaceans requires multiyear, long-term datasets with enough detail to track changes; such datasets are rare and take decades to accumulate. However, we are now seeing a number of such datasets come to light, and the results are spectacular. Here, we first provide an overview of culture and its transmission; we then highlight some of the clearest examples of baleen whale culture to date, concluding with research considerations. Culture and its influence on the lives of cetaceans can no longer be ignored as, to paraphrase some of the pioneers in the cetacean culture field, it is now clear that culture rules their [cetaceans’] lives. |
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Garland , E C & Carroll , E L 2022 , Culture and social learning in baleen whales . in C W Clark & E C Garland (eds) , Ethology and behavioral ecology of mysticetes . Ethology and behavioral ecology of marine mammals , Springer Nature , Cham , pp. 177-191 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98449-6_8 |
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