Llamas use social information from conspecifics and humans to solve a spatial detour task.
Domestication
Emulation
Human demonstration
New world camelids
Social learning
Stimulus enhancement
Journal
Animal cognition
ISSN: 1435-9456
Titre abrégé: Anim Cogn
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9814573
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2023
Sep 2023
Historique:
received:
15
02
2023
accepted:
30
06
2023
revised:
27
06
2023
medline:
22
8
2023
pubmed:
6
7
2023
entrez:
6
7
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Learning by observing others (i.e. social learning) is an important mechanism to reduce the costs of individual learning. Social learning can occur between conspecifics but also heterospecifics. Domestication processes might have changed the animals' sensitivity to human social cues and recent research indicates that domesticated species are particularly good in learning socially from humans. Llamas (Lama glama) are an interesting model species for that purpose. Llamas were bred as pack animals, which requires close contact and cooperative behaviour towards humans. We investigated whether llamas learn socially from trained conspecifics and humans in a spatial detour task. Subjects were required to detour metal hurdles arranged in a V-shape to reach a food reward. Llamas were more successful in solving the task after both a human and a conspecific demonstrated the task compared to a control condition with no demonstrator. Individual differences in behaviour (i.e. food motivation and distraction) further affected the success rate. Animals did not necessarily use the same route as the demonstrators, thus, indicating that they adopted a more general detour behaviour. These results suggest that llamas can extract information from conspecific and heterospecific demonstrations; hence, broadening our knowledge of domesticated species that are sensitive to human social behaviour.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37410341
doi: 10.1007/s10071-023-01808-8
pii: 10.1007/s10071-023-01808-8
pmc: PMC10442258
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1623-1633Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s).
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