Chimpanzees adapt their exploration to key properties of the environment

Abstract Exploration is an important strategy for reducing the uncertainty that pervades daily life. Yet the evolutionary roots of adaptive exploration are poorly understood. We harness and adapt the human decisions-from-experience paradigm to investigate exploration under uncertainty in chimpanzees...

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Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Lou M. Haux, Jan M. Engelmann, Esther Herrmann, Ralph Hertwig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-02-01
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57022-2