Acquisition and functional consequences of social knowledge in macaques

To manoeuvre in complex societies, it is beneficial to acquire knowledge about the social relationships existing among group mates, so as to better predict their behaviour. Although such knowledge has been firmly established in a variety of animal taxa, how animals acquire such knowledge, as well as...

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Published in:	Royal Society Open Science
Main Authors:	Barbara Tiddi, Eugenia Polizzi di Sorrentino, Julia Fischer, Gabriele Schino
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	The Royal Society 2017-01-01
Subjects:	social cognition inter-individual differences redirected aggression kinship primates
Online Access:	https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.160639