Cahyadin Y

Forshaw JM

Gajdon GK

Schulte EGB

Shumaker RW

Whiten A

Tool use can be inherited, or acquired as an individual innovation or by social transmission. Having previously reported individual innovative tool use and manufacture by a Goffin cockatoo, we used the innovator (Figaro, a male) as a demonstrator to investigate social transmission. Twelve Goffins saw either demonstrations by Figaro, or ‘ghost’ controls where tools and/or food were manipulated using magnets. Subjects observing demonstrations showed greater tool-related performance than ghost controls, with all three males in this group (but not the three females) acquiring tool-using competence. Two of these three males further acquired tool-manufacturing competence. As the actions of successful observers differed from those of the demonstrator, result emulation rather than high-fidelity imitation is the most plausible transmission mechanism.</jats:p

A. M. I. Auersperg

A. M. I. von Bayern

S. Weber

A. Szabadvari

T. Bugnyar

A. Kacelnik

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Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Social transmission of tool use and tool manufacture in Goffin cockatoos (
            <i>Cacatua goffini</i>
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Social transmission of tool use and tool manufacture in Goffin cockatoos (
                    Cacatua goffini

Social transmission of tool use and tool manufacture in Goffin cockatoos ( Cacatua goffini

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