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Wild Monkeys Learn to Puzzle Out Banana Video
by Laura Geggel
The wild marmosets living in the Brazilian forest have never seen a television show and certainly have never watched a movie in their jungle homes, until now. When scientists showed the newbies a short flick of a marmoset stranger opening a box to get a banana slice, they were likely to copy what they saw in the video and open the box themselves, a new study finds.
The study provides a glimpse into how these new world monkeys learn from each other in the wild, said the study’s lead researcher Tina Gunhold, a cognitive biologist at the University of Vienna.
“It was actually the first time where we used such a challenging task,” Gunhold said. “Normally they’re quite easy. The more difficult the task is, the more important social learning becomes.” [See Marmosets Watching a Video in the Brazilian Forest (Video)]
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/09/wild-monkeys-learn-to-puzzle-out-banana-video/
